Real-life Dr. Frankenstein talks about her job in TLC’s ‘Body Parts’
her Texas-based clinic for people who have missing or malformed anatomy.“I used to tell my patients that you don’t know about us until you need us,” said Vest, referring to the obscure nature of her job. “I found out about anaplastology when I was immersed in my master’s program [at the University of Illinois at Chicago]. It was called biomedical visualization, and you could offshoot into the prosthetics part.