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Growing up in the small farm town of Edgewood, Iowa, Dr. Perrinjaquet has been a dedicated vegan “since I studied gross anatomy in medical school.”

Egbe abandoned his studies for weeks, imagining his friend standing by the door each time he approached the gross anatomy room.

At most medical schools, gross anatomy courses last 100 hours, three times the length of most first-year courses.

Fittingly, for two writers fascinated by the body, she took him to the gross anatomy lab for their lone date: “I showed him the cadavers.”

I now teach gross anatomy as an adjunct in a physician-assistant program.