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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

by Abraham Verghese · 1994

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By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears.

Biography & Memoir AIDSAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeBiographyEpidemiologyPhysiciansSocial AspectsSocial Aspects of AIDSPatients

About My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an “urban problem” had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert…

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