Learning physiology and its softest derangements, the diseases are all faceless— alive only in the minds of the people who know. A woman held out her hands with raised purpura, a blurred-out wedding band, and a wrist tattoo. The thing that I find the strangest: heart keeps its beat by waiting. I’m weaving my way […]
Liz Irvin
Liz Irvin is a writer and medical student at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. She holds a B.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Barnard College. Her essay “Seasick: Lessons in Human Anatomy from Hyman Bloom’s The Hull” appeared in Hektoen International. She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.