Ezekiel

Rebekka DePew

First year preclinical we were learning about bones

and I loved them because they heal, as so few things

ever heal. In lecture hall, I would tell my friends about

my newfound love of broken bones, how they are not

like the other wounds that scar, like hormone levels

that overcorrect, cancers that come back. Bones get

broken and reform stronger. Split edges realign and

a new matrix is laid down, a building self-sufficient in

its own scaffolding.

And for a few days my obsession lasted, until a Friday

afternoon lecture on osteoporosis, a professor we'd

never seen before walked...

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2018 American College of Physicians