A review by sapeiffer
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese

2.0

A well-written and thoughtful account of the early AIDS crisis. Loses 3 stars for the bizarre and unacceptable paragraph midway through where he postulates that many of his gay male patients had been sexually abused as children but that these experiences were "sought out" by the children and "pleasurable" which was complemented by a number of bizarre references to this in patient stories. Nope. Someone needed to take their thoughtfulness about illness and go chat with a child therapist. Was not at all surprised when after an entire book of weird, ignorant riffs on human sexuality he thanked John Irving for advice in his acknowledgments.