AIDS
Abraham Verghese treated patients with AIDS before the medical community knew that the HIV virus precipitated the deadly disease. Although his book My Own Country contains a slew of inspiring and poignant case studies, Verghese's earliest cases Continue Reading...
Country: A Doctor's Story," by Abraham Verghese. Specifically, it will look at one case from the book and discuss the effect AIDS had on the doctor and the effect the patient had on the doctor.
MY OWN COUNTRY" - A CASE
Abraham Verghese is an India Continue Reading...
Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS" by Abraham Verghese. Specifically, it will contain a case on AIDS from the book, and discuss what is interesting and important about the case. Dr. Verghese's book is an emotional Continue Reading...
Country is an autobiographical story of Abraham Verghese, a man from India via Ethiopia who came to adopt the small town of Johnson City, Tennessee, as his new home.
In postgraduate studies he focused on infectious diseases, in part because it woul Continue Reading...