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Apr 25, 1995 · His first book, MY OWN COUNTRY, about AIDS in rural Tennessee, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1994 and was made into a movie directed by Mira Nair and starring Naveen Andrews, Marisa Tomei, Glenne Headley and others. His second book, THE TENNIS PARTNER, was a New York Times notable book and a national bestseller.
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Jan 1, 2001 · "My Own Country" reads like a novel as Verghese follows several of the first AIDS patients in Johnson City through the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The stories he shares are touching and frightening and it is all leavened with heavy doses of self-reference, doubt and personal pain from Verghese to make it utterly compelling.
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My Own Country. My Own Country: A Doctor's Story is Abraham Verghese's first book. First published in 1994, it made that year's New York Times Notable Book list. It is used in colleges and medical schools throughout North America and across the world because of the way it communicates the sense of empathy and compassion so often missing in medical school education in an era of high technology ...
Jul 12, 1998 · A 1998 drama based on a true story of an East Indian doctor who treats AIDS patients in rural Tennessee in 1985. The movie stars Naveen Andrews, Glenne Headly, Hal Holbrook and Marisa Tomei, and is directed by Mira Nair.
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Currently you are able to watch "My Own Country" streaming on Cineverse or for free with ads on Tubi TV, Freevee. Synopsis An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.
Abraham Verghese, a physician and educator, recounts his experience as a young doctor in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he became the city's AIDS expert in the 1980s. He describes the stigma, the patients, and the challenges of working with a deadly and misunderstood disease.
