Abraham Verghese
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Abraham Verghese, M.D., is a noted Indian-American doctor and author.
His family originates from Kerala, India. He was raised in Ethiopia where is parents along with hundreds of Keralites moved to decades ago to be teachers, as requested by the Emperor of Ethiopia.
He went back to India to attend medical school. He then immigrated to the United States, as one of the thousands of foreign medical graduates from India. There he was given a post in rural Tennessee where he encountered the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s. He wrote a bestselling book called My Own Country: A Doctor's Story about his experiences in displacement, diaspora, responses to foreigness and the human lives affected by the AIDS epidemic; it was later made into a movie by Mira Nair with Lost (TV series)'s star Naveen Andrews playing his role.
His second book,The Tennis Partner, deals with physician drug abuse and the death of a friend.
