Description
In this vivid memoir, a young physician recounts his early years as an infectious-disease specialist in Johnson City, Tennessee, where the AIDS crisis reshaped medicine, community, and conscience. Through the intimate stories of patients and the daily challenges of care, he explores what it means to practice with compassion amid fear, stigma, and uncertainty. Blending clinical detail with deeply human observation, the book illuminates themes of belonging, moral courage, and the search for “home” in unfamiliar places. With the narrative power of a seasoned storyteller and the authority of a doctor, it offers a moving portrait of how one life in medicine can become a lens on an entire era.
Available Editions
paperback
Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published Jan 1, 1995
347 pages
ISBN: 9781857992724
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Details
First Published
1994
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for My Own Country by Abraham Verghese.