My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS Short Essay - Answer Key

Abraham Verghese
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS Short Essay - Answer Key

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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1. What is given to a young man who was driving from New York to his parents' home in Johnson, after he awakes frightened in the ICU?

When the young man regains consciousness in the ICU, he is frightened by the tube in his throat that makes him gag and all the other tubes that are connected to his body. To calm him down, morphine is injected into one of his lines. Then he is paralyzed with a curarelike agent.

2. A young man is taken to the ER on August 11, 1985; how do his parents react when they learn he has AIDS?

Ray, a pulmonary physician, has to tell the young man's parents that the young man has AIDS. The mother freezes, looking at Ray as if he were speaking in another language. The father turns away, walks into the corridor, and out into the parking lot.

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