Real-life Dr. Frankenstein talks about her job in TLC’s ‘Body Parts’

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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. I was an anthropology and art major.

I [originally] wanted to reproduce artifacts for museums and things like that. But, that was boring.” Each episode of “Body Parts” follows Vest as she meets with various patients who come to her for prosthetics that they need for different reasons.

For instance, Vest’s patient Jay Jaszkowski lost his nose from cancer, and it has impacted his self-esteem so much that he feels like he can’t date or socialize.