Your patient is a 14-year-old girl.Even though she is 6 feet tall,she weighs only 100 pounds.Her doctor suspects she might have an eating disorder in which the patient avoids food due to a compulsion to become thin.The medical name for this condition is:

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The symptoms described match those of anorexia nervosa, a disorder characterized by a fear of gaining weight and an extreme desire to be thin, leading to food avoidance and potentially life-threatening weight loss. Irritable bowel syndrome, cirrhosis, and Crohn disease do not fit the symptoms described.

Your Patient Is a 14-Year-Old Girl