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Title	:	My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
Author	:	Abraham Verghese
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	April 25th 1995 by Vintage (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Health. Medicine. Medical. Biography

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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.
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, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency."

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Original Title:	My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
ISBN:	0679752927 (ISBN13: 9780679752929)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Lambda Literary Award for Biography/Autobiography (1995), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1994)

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I just finished reading MY OWN COUNTRY: A DOCTOR'S STORY by Abraham Verghese. I think it's a WONDERFUL book. Amazing and beautiful and sweet and sad and terrifying and gorgeous. Beautifully written. Exquisite prose.And a VERY disturbing book. The book is an exploration and investigation of the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and of the people who were infected by the virus, and of the physicians, nurses, and others who cared for them. It focuses on the area in and around Johnson City,

Okay - so my brother Greg recommended I read Abraham Verghese's "Cutting For Stone". Since Greg has excellent literary taste I looked up the book and recommended it to many of my friends. However, I was "afraid" to read it because I thought it might make me sad. So instead I decided to read his non-fiction account of treating AIDs in Tennessee during the 1980s, "My Own Country". Cause yeah that wouldn't be sad! My gracious friend Molly had a copy of the book which she lent to me. I just finished

Dr Verghese - Eloquent, extraordinarily compassionate, likeable and highly intelligent person. This book exceeded all expectations.Abraham Verghese goes from strength to strength when it comes to impressing me.    I first became a fan when I read the Foreword he wrote for Paul Kalanithi's memoir When Breath Becomes Air.    This was soon topped by his fabulous novel Cutting For Stone - one of my all time favourites.    Having such high expectations I briefly worried whether I might be

Dr. Verghese earned four of my stars for his fictional Cutting for Stone, but I only offer three for this memoir. He tells of his years as a rural Tennessee internist, in the era of the discovery of HIV. Verghese shares many vignettes of the HIV patients he managed and the resistance and fear often encountered in the community.The story is historically interesting, as HIV/AIDs is discovered in urban centers and migrates silently to small-town America. Certainly Verghese performed an enormous

4.50 starsAbraham Verghese has accomplished something wonderful in this very personal account of his experiences with the first AIDS patients that he treated as an infectious disease physician in eastern Tennessee in the mid 1980's. He bares his own soul about how difficult it was to see his patients sicken and die, about how devastating it was for them, their families, and himself to have to face the reality that there was no cure. He expresses his emotions of feeling like he was in a war zone

Verghese is amazing...great writer, albeit a little detail overloaded--sometimes you get the feeling he is practicing his writing. Be that as it may, he is clearly a caring doctor on the cusp of what will become the AIDS epidemic of our time. Takes place in Tennessee where the first cases of AIDS reach his rural community, and the sense of place is as real as the people he treats. Insightful, sympathetic and exhausting all at once.

I wasn't expecting much literary prowess from a book I was required to read for medical school, but was pleasantly surprised by Dr. Verghese's seminal account of treating AIDs patients in 1980s rural Tennessee. His accounts delve into so many of the nuanced issues surrounding medicine: patient-doctor relationships, cultural values, work-life balance, but what makes him a good writer (and no doubt a good physician as well) is his painstaking attention to detail. He puts you into his head during