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

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

 

 have read a few of Verghese's fiction novels but was intrigued by this memoir of his life as a young medical resident in the US (from Ethiopia) in infectious diseases. Verghese worked in a small town, in rural Tennesse during the rise of the AIDS epidemic. It was a very touching story about how doctors care for patients, the view of caring for terminally ill young patients and dealing with the prejudice of small towns. It got a little long-winded (and self-grandiose) at times but overall a really interesting story.