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Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
- James E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P . L .
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
A young man is driving down from New York to visit his parents in Johnson City, Tennessee. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting and Informative,
By Tina Nelson (Clairmont, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (Paperback)
I enjoyed the book. It is a completely different style from Cutting for Stone, which is one of my favourite reads. It is of course non-fiction and I found the history of Dr. Verghese's research and work with HIV very interesting and informative. I also liked his candid approach to the book. I would reccomend to anyone with a special interest in HIV or even Gay rights.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Almost too long to be effective.,
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This review is from: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (Paperback)
My Own Country is a tough book to read. There are so many stories of people struggling to live in the early years before there were any treatments to make living with HIV at all possible. There's also the growing despair of the author as he sees the disease spreading through his rural town and of course across the globe and not having anything he can do beyond diagnosing the disease and treating the opportunistic diseases that attack his patients.By about page 250 I began to grow numb from the overload off all the personal stories. The book as well begins to ramble a bit but I can fully understand why Dr. Verghese chose to leave for a less stressful job.
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My Own Country, my home town.,
By "dougnemma" (Johnson City, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (Paperback)
This book is an amazing way to discover the hardships that those must over come who are diagnosed with HIV and AIDS. I am from Johnson City, TN. As a part of a clinical I was doing in high school we were given many options of books to read for a grade, this was one. I was drawn to it because hey, this was my home town. But what I got from this book overcame everything I had expected.I wept reading this book. It is amazing how you get to know Dr. Verghese and his patients. You, in a way, experience their hardships and triumps, even the families loss. He explains word for word the exhausting battle of finding out and forming a plan of action. He puts you into the realization of these individuals and what they felt. You begin to morn their loosing battles and celebrate in their strength in recovery. He discribes this area of Tennessee with such effortless ease. It's beauty struck with something so horrid. Reading the book I forgot that this was my home, the people in it were people of my town. For a nieve high school student it made me realize that no matter what the year was this was real and it was here in my own back yard. "My Own Country." I learned more than just about the people or about the land but the medical terminology was explained and he made you the reader understand what it meant to him and the world of medicine. Each detail will make you feel like you are right there in the ER of the "Miracle Center". There were times I just could not put this book down. I have read it three times now and I am starting my fourth. The stories in this book of the patients are tragic. Anyone who has any type of preconceived notion of what it is like to have AIDS/HIV or what "kind of people" have AIDS/HIV should read this book. It will open your eyes to a whole new world. This story of our small town, as it was then, has reached all over the world. It has inspired and educated everyone who has read it. I'm sure that it still means a great deal to the families of those in it. AIDS will always be scary, it will always be something that will cause pain and horror to our ears, this book describes a small town with prejudice of it's own before a time of AIDS and how it conforms to another way of thinking. Just like in this book, not everyone will ever be accepting of those who contract this disease but everyone will be made aware of it. I suggest this book to any reader with any reading taste. You will walk away with much more than what you came with. You will get to know our people and their stories from the mind of a man who knew them all. Abraham Verghese was brilliant in writing this collection of lives on paper. Thank you Dr. Verghese for letting their voices be heard all over the world and inspiring those who take time to indulge in your brilliance.
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