Question

A fair, fat, forty-three-year-old woman had been having episodes of griping abdominal pain after fatty meals. one day she ate french onion soup with lots of cheese and suffered severe enough pain that she called in sick. her supervisor pointed out that she always gets sick after fatty foods. she went to the clinic and the nurse in triage took her vitals and history. the nurse noticed that the whites of her eyes were yellow and that she had tenderness on the right side of her abdomen. blood pressure and heart rate were normal. based on this initial assessment, what organs do you think might be involved in this woman's illness, and why? choose the two most likely organs involved in her illness.

Answer 1

Yellowing of the eyes implies liver problems and the liver is involved in digestion and processing of fatty foods. Pain after eating fatty foods also implies gall bladder problems. The mnemonic is Fair, Fat, Female, Forty for gall bladder problems.