num_pages: 352
description: This is Abraham Verghese's first book - the story of being a doctor, and specifically, a doctor to young AIDS patients. It is a book about illness and treatment, about internism, doctor-patient relationships, the body in decline, the ritual of examination and how Verghese, as a doctor and a humane man, copes with dying.
language: English
title: Soundings: Doctors Life Age Aids
titlecomplete: Soundings: Doctors Life Age Aids
genres: Medicine, Biography, History, Science, Autobiography, Health, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Medical, Memoir
ratings_count: 11646
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Orion Publishing Co