"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....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.
...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..."
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