My Own Country: A Doctor's Story is Abraham Verghese's first book.[1] First published in 1994, it made that year's New York Times Notable Book list.[2] It is used in colleges and medical schools throughout North America and across the world because of the way it communicates the sense of empathy and compassion so often missing in medical school education in an era of high technology and reliance on computers as primary diagnostic tools.
- ^ Dorris, Michael (1994-04-26). "A Country Doctor Faces the Era of AIDS". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ^ Klass, Perri (1994-08-28). "AIDS in the Heartland". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-29.