My Own Country
A Doctor's Story
A young physician's account of treating early AIDS patients in a small eastern Tennessee town in the 1980s.
In the mid-1980s Abraham Verghese was an infectious disease doctor in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he expected one or two HIV patients a year and soon had a hundred. He became the town’s AIDS expert, and he was often alone at a bedside when family and friends were afraid. This 1994 memoir was a New York Times Notable Book, and Mira Nair directed a 1998 Showtime film of it.
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