Contributing Writer Emeritus
Penn State Hershey College of Medicine
Lisa Beyers is a class of 2016 medical student at the Penn State College of Medicine. Her writing career began as a child with a love of libraries and an unhealthy interest in office supplies. She lives in central Pennsylvania with her husband and two guinea pigs.
Eight weeks into anatomy class. Nine days into dissection of the head and neck. Forty five minutes into Tuesday morning’s anatomy lab and we are all searching for a place of solace.
None of us were prepared for the dissection of the face. As my lab partner, Simon, chisels a clumsy midsagittal chasm between the front teeth of the body lying before us, we brace for that moment of destruction when anatomic perfection turns into carnage.
Contributing Writer Emeritus
Penn State Hershey College of Medicine
Lisa Beyers is a class of 2016 medical student at the Penn State College of Medicine. Her writing career began as a child with a love of libraries and an unhealthy interest in office supplies. She lives in central Pennsylvania with her husband and two guinea pigs.
