The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes

Author:Bill Hayes [Hayes, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780345456892
Google: Sb0nQl9pmgoC
Amazon: 1934137219
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2008-01-26T08:00:00+00:00

The topmost takes its name, as tendons tend to, from the muscle from which it emerges, the flexor digitorum superficialis, located way up in the forearm. This muscle also has an old-fashioned name, which I personally think is a better name, one that had persisted for five centuries and found its way into Gray’s Anatomy: the flexor digitorum sublimis. Why “sublime” rather than “superficial”? Well, purportedly, because the flexor digitorum sublimis sends its tendons to the fingers, including the single digit a romantic would consider the most important, the ring finger, and of course, marriage leads to sublime happiness, no?

As Rachel and I scrape off the last bits of fascia, she spills the remainder of her story: She’s married. She and her husband have a home in the Oakland hills, two dogs—a nice life. “But I wasn’t totally happy.” She hated her job and really wanted to work with people rather than numbers. Years ago, a wonderful physical therapist had helped her recover from a horrific auto accident, and having been on the receiving end ultimately led her along the path toward today. But oh, that physical therapist neglected to say how much work becoming one would be! Rachel’s midterm grades weren’t so hot, she confides, and she is already stressing about the upcoming finals. “I have got to know these bones,” she says, sounding like an accountant determined to make the numbers crunch.

“Well, let’s make it happen.”

I go to retrieve one of the five hanging skeletons positioned around the lab, to use for comparison. I love these things, I think as I wheel it to our table, how they are wired together like some crazy Calder mobile; how the bones rattle as you roll them; and, not least, how these are the real McCoy, not those bright white plastic clones made nowadays. Each skeleton is unique, different in size, coloring, and subtle surface markings, the bones themselves bearing a permanent imprint of the person who once was.

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