My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Abraham Verghese
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Abraham Verghese
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapters One through Four

• During the summer of 1985, a young man driving from New York to Johnson City, Tennessee gets sick.

• He is taken to the Johnson City Medical Center where Claire Bellamy, a nurse, realizes he is seriously ill and calls for help.

• A pulmonary doctor, Ray, believes that the young man has AIDS and the staff is terrified of being exposed to the disease.

• After the young man dies, discussion centers around what to do with the ventilator, but personnel believe this is an isolated incident for a rural city like Johnson City since AIDS is a big city problem.

• Abraham Verghese discusses how he came to Johnson City.

• Verghese's parents are from India, and they met while teaching physics in Ethiopia.

• Abraham studied in Ethiopia, India, and America before completing his degree in the United States.

• While in India, Abraham met and married Rajani Chacko...

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