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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 shock

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Book ID Asin: 0679752927
Book Title: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese Book Review

Name: LiveLoveLaugh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book
Date: Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2020
Review: Let me preface this by saying that I am extremely well read in matters of HIV/AIDS. Next to "And the Band Played On" this is the best book I have read so far. It focuses mostly on the people living with AIDS & their struggle to survive. However, it also focuses on the discrimination that the author faced in caring for these individuals. There were a few long winded sections about the scenery. I am a country girl so I skipped past those sections as I was not interested. May have been a total of 8 or 10 pages throughout the book but only a few paragraphs at a time. This is a well written and informative book. I would love it if the author wrote a follow up book in the years after 1996 and how his experience changed. If you have never read a book on the HIV/AIDS crisis this is where I would suggest that you start.

Warning: In this book you will read stereotypical things about the homosexual population. Many of which the author readily admitted to and faced head on. If you are sensitive to this then you may want to skip this book. It did not bother me enough to stop reading it but it is there. Both in the author and the people he writes about.

Name: R. M. Peterson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: AIDS and broadening one's horizons of humanity
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2017
Review: Abraham Verghese is a physician, a specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases. His medical training was in Ethiopia and India. He came to the United States as an FMG (foreign medical graduate). After finishing his residency and a fellowship, he settled in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1985. Because of his work in Boston, he was the most knowledgeable doctor in the Johnson City area about AIDS, but AIDS was not yet present when he arrived. Four years later, when he left Johnson City, there had been dozens of deaths from AIDS and he had over eighty HIV-infected persons under his care. Johnson City, with its 50,000 residents, had a hundred-fold more cases than the CDC would have predicted for it. MY OWN COUNTRY is Verghese's account of his four years in Johnson City, Tennessee, fighting an ever-mushrooming battle with AIDS and coming to love a corner of Appalachia.

Two subjects predominate. One, of course, is AIDS. The book is studded with case studies, as Verghese sees a wide array of the insidious ways in which AIDS manifests itself and kills. Most of his patients had obtained HIV elsewhere and had moved back to the Johnson City area once they became ill. Acquisition for most was via unprotected homosexual contact, but for a few it was through tainted blood or plasma or via heterosexual intercourse. The disease was hellish in and of itself, but often the social ripple effects were also dreadful -- from contempt and rejection on the part of family members and community, to refusals to treat by doctors and dentists, to boycotting by undertakers. As Verghese writes, "I was improvising constantly to deal with the moral, ethical and social subtleties that were so much a part of this disease."

The second principal subject involves medical practice in general in this country. When Verghese chose to specialize in infectious diseases, he relegated himself to second-tier status among his physician colleagues, especially financially. Medicine was transforming itself into a get-rich business, and the big money was in conducting processes and performing procedures, as opposed to diagnosing patients and being their primary care physician. As Verghese came to realize, proper treatment often required a holistic approach, which in turn required an understanding of the dynamics of the patient's relationships with family, friends, and community. In the thirty years since, the economics of medicine has gotten more out-of-control, and the quality of medical care has decreased. Even in 1985, many of the doctors and medical staff in rural hospitals and in urban public hospitals were foreign-trained, working in the U.S. with visas. If the U.S. continues to insulate itself from the world at large, how will these roles be filled in the future?

Verghese, however, does not harp on these and other social/medical policy issues or become preachy. Foremost, MY OWN COUNTRY contains umpteen different tales of human suffering and endurance, surprisingly often heroic and dignified in nature. For every incident of contempt and rejection, there is one of care and compassion. Two heroes in particular stand out -- Essie Vines, who cared and advocated for her brother Gordon, and Fred Goodson, who did likewise for his partner Otis Jackson and also was the principal organizer and force behind the local AIDS-support group. Anecdotally, there are a handful of intriguing "human interest" stories, such as "John Doe", a debilitated old man with a stroke, diabetes and pneumonia who had been left at the emergency room entrance while the family went to "park the car" and were never seen again; or Vickie McCray, who got HIV from her husband, who unbeknownst to her often had had sex with a male friend from his youth and then went on to give the virus to Vickie's sister as well (Vickie told Verghese that "ever since I found out he has AIDS, I've been feeling too sorry for him to be angry with him. No one deserves to be sick lik'at. No one deserves to lose their mind lik'at.").

MY OWN COUNTRY is not a perfect book. At times, Verghese goes too far down rabbit trails of marginal relevancy (especially when he describes geography and the routes from one place to another); the book is a tad manipulative; occasionally Verghese, although a truly remarkable person, comes across as a little holier-than-thou; and the sentimental reference to "my own country" seems a wee bit hypocritical given that Verghese left the Johnson City area after four years, never to live there again.

That said, and even though the book now is over twenty years old, MY OWN COUNTRY deserves to be read. It is interesting throughout, it is very readable, and reading it will surely broaden almost everyone's horizons of humanity.

Name: Allie A
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: All time favorite read.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2019
Review: I loved this book with all my heart. He is a great writer. I was an inpatient nurse during this Aids crisis time and I was happy to revisit some of the people I cared for. I was reminded of the man who looked at me and said, "Thank you for touching me, no one has done that for a long time." His dedication to his patients is remarkable. His memory of family members gave such depth to the characters. When people are ill they sometimes are seen only as they are now. We forget or don't ask about who they are, what they love, how they loved, what makes them laugh....etc. The dedication of some family members was so touching. I mean your husband brings this disease home to you and when he is so sick and out of his mind you are still standing there. It was beautiful and touching. A book that I keep, you'll have to buy your own.

Name: MDMD
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Authentic and moving
Date: Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2010
Review: In this beautifully written memoir, Abraham Verghese documents what it was like to be a physician, patient and family member living (or at the time dying) with AIDS. As in his novel Cutting for Stone, Verghese has a way of drawing the reader in with his finely drawn descriptions of people and places. As a physician who completed a residency in an urban hospital right at the time period covered by Dr. Verghese, I feel that he brilliantly captured the impotence and despair we all felt during the mid to late 80s (especially before AZT came into use), when we watched our patients-mostly young and middle aged men--waste away and succumb to this horrible disease while we had little to offer them but our emotional support. I've read several books about the origins of the AIDS epidemic. My Own Country shines as one that captures the devastation at an individual level that is moving and rings true. What a compassionate physician and gifted writer he is!

Name: Annie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Highly recommended
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2015
Review: Great book! Abraham Verghese's case studies are riveting, both in their clinical and psychological aspects.We're given an unusual glimpse into the affect of this dreaded disease on the soul of a caring physician and on the toll it takes on his family. The author presents revealing information about the American medical system while furnishing evocative descriptions of the physical beauty and of the sociology of this small Appalachian community as well as that of his Indian community. Abraham Verghese is fighting a lonely war on so many fronts, against ignorance, against prejudice, against his own sense of alienation, against death. Never judgemental, inordinately empathetic to his patients, he is far from condescending, as some reviewers have mistakenly stated. This book was an absorbing and educational read that will stay with me for a long time. Abraham Verghese is as gifted a story teller as he is a physician. I hope this book will soon be made available on Kindle.