My Own Country Characters Listed With Descriptions

MY OWN COUNTRY
Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
1	Claire	Bellamy	A nurse.
	Ray		A pulmonary physician.
	Jennie		The ICU ward clerk.
2	Abraham	Verghese	An infectious disease physician and a writer. Aka: Abe.
	George	Verghese	Abraham's father.
	Miriam	Abraham	George's wife.
	Thomas		Miriam's uncle.
	Terese		Miriam's aunt.
	Haile	Selassie	Former Emperor of Ethiopia.
	Benito	Mussolini	Former Prime Minister of Italy.
	Lata	Mangeshkar	An Indian playback singer and music director.
	Mukesh		An Indian playback singer.
	Mohammed	Rafi	An Indian playback singer.
	Zachariah	Mathen	Abraham's fellow intern.
	Amitabh	Bachchan	An Indian film actor.
	Dimple	Kapadia	An Indian actress.
	Rajani	Chacko	An account executive working for a leading advertising agency.
	Louise	Tipton	Dr. Patel's patient.
	Dr.	Patel	A cardiologist.
	Essie	Vines	A laboratory technician.
	Gordon		Essie's brother.
	J. D.		A part time security guard.
	Lakshmi		The goddess of wealth.
	Tom	Starzl	A surgeon.
	Steve	Berk	An infectious diseases specialist.
	William	McCabe	The Chief of Infectious Diseases at Boston City Hospital.
	Osler		The dean of American medicine.
	Tony	Cappellucci	Abraham Verghese's first gay patient.
	Luc Antoine	Montagnier	A French Virologist.
	Robert Charles	Gallo	American physician-scientist.
3	Steven		Abraham's son.
	Allen		Abraham's close friend.
	Claudia		Allen's wife.
	Daniel	Boone	American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman.
	Harry M.	Caudill	American author, historian, lawyer, legislator, and environmentalist.
	John	Sevier	American soldier, frontiersman, and politician.
	Patrick	Ferguson	Scottish officer in the British Army.
	V. S.	Naipaul	Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction.
	Gus		Allen's acquaintance.
	Dr.	Aziz	Abraham Verghese's second-year resident as an intern.
4	Eloise	Stokes	A baby sitter.
	Sally	Jameson	A 16th year-old girl who was diagnosed with leukemia.
	Jeff	Viner	A former biker who had been paraplegic.
	Virginia	Longtree	A retired school nurse.
	Tracey	Oliver	A cheerleader.
	Olivia	Sells	The director of the local Red Cross.
	Jerry	Falwell Jr.	American attorney, former academic administrator.
	James		A patient with AIDS.
	Madhu		Abraham's friend.
	Trevor		Abraham's acquaintance.
	Raleigh		Trevor's friend.
	Ronald	Reagan	40th U.S. President.
	Neil	Miller	American journalist and nonfiction writer.
	David	Crockett	The district attorney.
5	Clara		The nursing supervisor.
	Rock	Hudson	American actor.
	Sabatha		One of Essie's daughters.
	Joy		One of Essie's daughters.
	Dr.	Bell	An internist.
	Mary		One of the nurses at Johnson City Medical Center.
	Eleanor		One of the nurses at Johnson City Medical Center.
	Elton	John	An English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer.
	Robert Lee		One of Essie's brothers.
	Herman		One of Essie's brothers.
	Matthew		Essie's uncle.
	Frankie	Valli	American singer.
	John 1		A flight attendant.
	Trudie		A cocker spaniel.
	Brian	Clark	Gordon's new name.
	Bruce		Gordon's friend.
	A. C.	McCaffey	A geography teacher.
	Ruby	Presnell	Sabatha's classmate.
	Rodney	Tester	Dr. K's patient.
6	Mrs.	T.	Abraham's patient.
	Carol		A nurse.
	Ed	Maupin	One of Abraham's patients.
	Bobby	Keller	One of Abraham's patients.
	Milan	Kundera	A Czech writer.
	Jonathan	Winters	American comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist.
	Dale	Carnegie	American writer and lecturer.
	William	Shakespeare	English playwright, poet, and actor.
	Fred	Goodson	One of Abraham Verghese's patients.
	Otis	Jackson	One of Abraham Verghese's patients.
	Robert	Mapplethorpe	American photographer.
7	Vickie	McCray	Abraham's acquaintance.
	Clyde Odum	McCray	Vickie's husband.
	Dr.	W	An astute neurologist.
	Clyde Junior		Vickie's son.
	Danielle		Vickie's daughter.
	Jewell		A family friend of Clyde's folks.
	Jack		Essie's friend.
	Grace		One of Vickie's cousins.
	Andrew		Grace's husband.
8	A. J.	Jones	Owner of a funeral home. Aka: Doochie.
	George	Wiseman	Essie's acquaintance.
9	Scotty	Daws	Abraham's patient.
	Dr.	H.	The neurosurgeon,
	Desmond		Scotty's lover.
	Betty	Franzus	Abraham's research technician.
	Ludwig	Traube	A German physician and co-founder of the experimental pathology.
	Alfred	de Musset	A French dramatist, poet, and novelist.
	Mr.	McGregor	A patient in bed one.
	Maggie		A buxom nurse.
	Arthur	Simpson	The first veteran with AIDS.
	Seth	Barker	The second veteran with AIDS.
	Mr.	Trivett	A patient with chronic lung disease.
	John	Doe	An old man with a stroke, diabetes and pneumonia.
	Doyle		A third-year medical student.
	Karen		One of the infection control nurses.
	Bud		One of the infection control nurses.
	Cindy	Johnson	A girl with cystic fibrosis.
	Earl		Abraham's friend.
	Bryant	Gumbel	The young schoolteacher.
	Dr.	Dunkelberger	An obstetrician.
	Solomon		The drummer.
	Jacob George	Verghese	Abraham and Rajani's second son.
10	Mahatma	Gandhi	An Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist.
	Elaine	Shuman	Coordinator of a group of medical students and psychologists.
	Bettie	Lee	Fred's sister.
	Dale		Abraham's acquaintance.
	Gaëtan	Dugas	Canadian flight attendant and a relatively early HIV patient.
	Randy	Shilts	American journalist and author.
	Troy	Perry	A Pentecostal minister.
11	Brij		Abraham's friend.
12	Michael	Jackson	American singer-songwriter.
13	Norman	Rockwell	American painter and illustrator.
	O'Dwyer		A physician who invented the intubation.
15	Sarah	Presnell	A general internist.
	William	Johnson	A mining engineer. Aka: Will.
	Bess	Johnson	Will's wife.
	Chuck	Hoover	Will's best friend.
	Matthew	Elliot	One of Will's friends.
	Lee Ann		Bess' daughter.
	Jimmy	Swaggart	American Pentecostal evangelist..
	Jim	Bakker	American televangelist, entrepreneur, and convicted fraudster.
	Sigmund	Freud	Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis.
16	B. J.	Hilton	A manager at a well-known restaurant.
	Mr.	Hilton	B.J.'s father.
	Mrs.	T	Abraham's patient.
	Thomas	Mann	German novelist, short story writer.
	Joyce		Abraham's secretary at the VA.
17	Nero		The fifth Roman emperor.
	Stuart	Levitz	Abraham's friend and former tennis buddy.
	Petie	Granger	Abraham's new patient.
	Mrs.	Granger	Petie's mother.
	Max	Essex	A Professor of Health Sciences in the Dept. of Immunology at Harvard.
	Friedrich	Nietzsche	German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic.
	Soren	Kierkegaard	Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and author.
	Kitty	Hawk	One of Fred's friends.
	Stonewall	Jackson	A professor in physics.
	David	Durack	The Chief of Infectious Diseases at Duke University.
18	Felix	Sarubbi	A staff doctors in infectious disease.
	Dr.	J.	A dentist.
	Ethan	Nidiffer	Dr. J.'s patient.
	Darryl		A motorcycle mechanic.
19	Earl		Abraham's tennis buddy.
	Jacko		One of Abraham's patients.
	Brian	Smith	A pulmonary physician.
	Anand		Abraham's oncologist friend.
	Jimmy	Roach	One of Abraham's patients. Aka: J.R.
20	Lillian	Paez	A socialite. Abraham's acquaintance.
	Sue	McCoy	Abraham's surgical counterpart.
	Cameron	Tolliver	One of Abraham's patients.
	Lorraine	Day	A US author, former orthopedic trauma surgeon.
21	Norman	Sanger	Abraham's patient with hemophilia and AIDS.
	Claire		Norman's fiancé.
	Sharon	Phillips	An occupational health nurse.
22	Ernest	Tubb	American singer-songwriter.
	Minnie	Pearl	American country comedian.
24	Will Jr.		Will Sr. and Bess' son.
	Rebecca		Will Jr.'s wife.
	William	Blake	An English poet, painter, and printmaker.
	John 2		Lee Ann's husband.
25	Elisabeth	Kübler-Ross	American-Swiss psychiatrist.
	Claire		Norman's wife.
	Larry		Sharon's husband.
	Donny		One of the rescue squad people.
26	Luther	Hines	One of Abraham's patients.
	Reji		Abraham's brother.
27	Raquel	Welch	American actress and singer.
28	Carolyn	Sliger	Worked at the Health Department.
	Hobart	Carter	Abraham's acquaintance.
	Mr.	Carter	Hobart's father.
	Mrs.	Carter	Hobart's mother.
	Jake		Hobart's brother.
	Merle	Sande	An internationally known AIDS expert.
30	Charles	Leithead	A professor of medicine at the Princess Tsahai Hospital.
	Tom		Abraham's fellow students.
	Arsalon		Abraham's fellow students.
	Woizero	Almaz	Leithead's patient.
	Bill	Mulrooney	One of Abraham's acquaintances.
	Edward	Harless	One of Abraham's acquaintances,
	Red		One of Abraham's acquaintances.
	Mr.	Tobias	A man who had a heart attack.
	William	Withering	The discoverer of digitalis.
31	Jay	Mehta	Abraham's friend.
	Meena		Jay's wife.

My Own Country suggested by Helen Connolly