My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671785141 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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But his work at the Johnson City Medical Center soon led him into a shadow world of Bible-belt AIDS, often without the support of his colleagues. Paperback rights to Vintage; author tour. Writing with an outsider's empathy and insight, casting his chronicle in graceful prose, he offers a memorable tale that both captures and transcends time and place. . Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. and settled in Johnson City, Tenn., in the mid-1980s, he finally felt at peace "in my own country" at last. From Publishers Weekly When infectious-disease specialist Verghese, the Ethiopian-born son of Indian schoolteachers, emigrated to the U.S. Verghese discovered a local gay community that was then untested for the HIV virus. If revealed, these people's closeted relationships would have, writes Verghese, made them stand out "like Martians." The author tells the stories of severa
The first book by a doctor who works with AIDS victims daily offers a revealing look at the impact of AIDS on a small Tennessee town, as townspeople respond to the disease's presence in inspiring ways.
"One of the best memoirs I've ever read" according to Mari Lu Robbins (mariluOne of the best memoirs I've ever read With the eye, ear and voice of a novelist and with the compassion of a healer, Dr. Abraham Verghese has taken his experiences as "the AIDS doctor" of east Tennessee and turned them into an incredible memoir. This is one of the most touching and engrossing books I've read in years.When Verghese landed in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1985, he came as a newly-accredited infectious diseases specialist to treat veterans, most of whom had lung cancer and emphysema, and to spend one day a week in the town medical center he learned to ca. 12One of the best memoirs I've ever read With the eye, ear and voice of a novelist and with the compassion of a healer, Dr. Abraham Verghese has taken his experiences as "the AIDS doctor" of east Tennessee and turned them into an incredible memoir. This is one of the most touching and engrossing books I've read in years.When Verghese landed in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1985, he came as a newly-accredited infectious diseases specialist to treat veterans, most of whom had lung cancer and emphysema, and to spend one day a week in the town medical center he learned to ca. @aol.com). With the eye, ear and voice of a novelist and with the compassion of a healer, Dr. Abraham Verghese has taken his experiences as "the AIDS doctor" of east Tennessee and turned them into an incredible memoir. This is one of the most touching and engrossing books I've read in years.When Verghese landed in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1985, he came as a newly-accredited infectious diseases specialist to treat veterans, most of whom had lung cancer and emphysema, and to spend one day a week in the town medical center he learned to ca. Superb. One very moving piece of writing. He makes it possible to see a doctor as a human being. Not too many physicians out there who have as profound an empathy as Verghese holds within himself. Many a time what he expressed brought tears to my eyes. In depth study of human nature about a time that was horrendously difficult and layered with prejudice. Verghese captures that time in a very humane way! Thank you, Abraham.. Good for the first part The book was very interesting for the first 100 pages or so. I knew about the AIDS epidemic in the 80s from a factual standpoint, but reading this helped me to understand what it was like to be there and to be involved. However, the book could have been a lot shorter. It seemed to get repetitive and preachy.