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By Abraham Verghese. Approximately 347 pp. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1994. $23. ISBN 0-671-78514-1.

In late 1985, Dr. Abraham Verghese, freshly licensed infectious-disease specialist, arrived in Johnson City, Tennessee, to begin his practice. The number of AIDS cases was beginning to rise in the urban centers of the East and West Coasts. Dr. Verghese's decision to leave Boston and return to rural Tennessee, the site of his residency, meant leaving this new and troubling epidemic behind. Or so he thought.

A few months before Dr. Verghese's arrival in Johnson City, a young man who had left Tennessee years earlier for New York City arrived in the emergency room of the Johnson City Medical Center . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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