![]() ![]() Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. ![]() Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an “urban problem” had arrived in the town to stay. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. The memoir and first book from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone. ![]()
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