My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story
Author: Abraham Verghese
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 onc….Read More
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