My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story

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By the bestselling writer 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 at all times appeared exempt from the anxieties of brand new American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once appeared an “urban problem” had arrived in the town to stay.
   
Working in Johnson City was once Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor focusing on infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of female and male patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular viewpoint 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 author of grace and compassion who saw that what was once happening in this conservative community was once both a medical and a non secular emergency.

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