Posted on 04/08/2019 8:40:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection lab at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
Similar groups of five gathered around bodies on the other 15 tables in the anatomy class, all eager to explore the mysteries of the human body they had seen only in textbooks.
The cadaver assigned to Nielsen's team was a 99-year-old woman who had died of natural causes. Her name was Rose Marie Bentley, but the students didn't know that then. To honor and respect the privacy of those who offer their bodies to science, no further details are given medical students about the person who had once inhabited the body lying on the silvery slab before them.
But as the students and their professors were soon to find out, Bentley was special, so special she deserved her own unique spot in medical literature and history books.
The reason? A condition called situs inversus with levocardia, in which most vital organs are reversed -- almost like a mirror inside the body. That, along with a host of other weird but wonderful abnormalities, made Bentley a sort of medical unicorn.
"I think the odds of finding another person like her may be as remote as one in 50 million," said assistant professor Cameron Walker, who teaches the Foundations of Clinical Anatomy class at Oregon Health and Science University. "I don't think any of us will ever forget it, honestly."
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LOL
My mom gave her body to the local university for medical study. If it is within your morals - I would think they would love to have your body as well. (Well, once you’re done with it - as was the case for my mom!)
I have twins (parts in the right places as far as I know) that had mirror-images of things, most notably with their teeth. Which teeth came in first, fell out first, etc. Pretty interesting - I’m guessing it has something to do with how the egg split in half.
Funny, my first though was a bizarre transporter accident. There must have been a reason Bones never trusted those things.
>>”I think the odds of finding another person like her may be as remote as one in 50 million,”
so there are 154 people just like her walking right now.
>>How far does this “reverse” go?
ELAINE: Yeah! An’ he is a friend, Jerry. He is reliable. He is considerate. He’s like your, exact opposite.
JERRY: So he’s Bizarro Jerry!
ELAINE: [pause] Bizarro Jerry?
JERRY: Yeah. Like Bizarro Superman. Superman’s exact opposite, who lives in the backwards bizarro world. Up is Down. Down is Up. He says “Hello” when he leaves, “Good bye” when he arrives.
ELAINE: [pause] Shouldn’t he say “Badbye”? Isn’t that the, opposite of “Goodbye”?
JERRY: No. It’s still a goodbye.
ELAINE: Uh. Does he live underwater?
JERRY: No.
ELAINE: Is he black..
JERRY:Look. Just, forget it, already. All right?
< /seinfeld >
My mirror has been wrong after I hit middle age.
How many times has a nurse or doctor put a stethoscope on your chest to check your heart? You would think that somebody would have noticed. ???? She didn’t live in the third world....
My friend’s daughter has this. The doctor definitely noticed, he had trouble hearing her heart until my friend told him of her condition.
Just the organs ..... :)
Obviously, she was not a Dem....or they would have found that she had an anal-cephalic inclusion.
I know someone like that. Don’t know about all organs but the heart and lungs are reversed.
She must have seen a doctor at least once in her life and the doctor’s first action is to listen to the heart. I don’t believe anyone didn’t know about this.
She must’ve been a menace in traffic though.
When I was young, I dated a medical student at Case Western. He introduced me to his cadaver, Fred. Fred was a heck of a guy.
My digestive tract is completely reversed, but heart, lungs are normal. It’s been an issue a couple of times, the docs don’t believe me until they’ve seen it for themselves (don’t ask, it’s not pleasant).
I also have an appendix which runs the width of the abdominal cavity, from the wrong side; very unusual I’m told. Doc told me to pay attention to pains coming from anywhere, and to tell the ER.
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If you can carry with you a medical explanation of what is going on with you signed by your doctor. ERs are often staffed by per deims and some do not listen. And if you are unable to explain... it deserves a medic alert bracelet
So in 99 years she never had a chest Xray?
Are toes organs?
My girlfriends two nephews have this condition. I never heard of it until I met them.
Man hands...... FYI.
The way mine act up, I think they DO consider themselves organs. They demand a lot of attention and are always complaining.
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