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My Epidemic: An AIDS Memoir Of One Man's Struggle As Doctor, Patient and Survivor

Andrew M. Faulk M.D.

"A captivating true story of courage in the face of near-hopeless odds, My Epidemic fills a gap in the staggering history of AIDS. Here is a perspective few would ever know: an AIDS practitioner who continued his desperately needed work in the early, worst years of the epidemic, even though he himself was HIV positive. This gave Dr. Andrew Faulk a profound life-and-death bond with his patients. His spare, tell-all, yet compassionate voice takes readers on a harrowing but inspiring journey, an experience that ends, miraculously, with survival." --Jerry Rosco Author of the biography Glenway Wescott Personally

When young Dr. Andrew Faulk first learned he was HIV-positive, he was devastated for it certainly meant imminent death. Until then, he'd been an outstanding young physician with years of intensive training. That day, without warning, he faced the great divide of his life. Due to the rigors and stress of training, he considered abandoning his medical career. But, instead, he dedicated the remainder of his life to the fight against AIDS, ultimately participating in the care of approximately 50 patients who died, many his own peers, including his partner. Being HIV-positive, Faulk discovered something other doctors didn't experience-in every patient he cared for, whatever the symptoms, he saw himself. As patients and friends died around him, at any time he, too, could have "stepped off the earth." Yet with intuition, insight and compassion, he brought peace and comfort whenever possible to those he called "my guys." After a long silence he recounts those heroic years and tells this, his true story as doctor, patient and survivor.

Author Biography

Andrew Faulk, M.D., a native of Seattle, received his B.A. from Columbia University where he graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and his M.D. from the University of Washington. During the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, while still in medical school, Faulk saw his first AIDS patient. After his training in San Francisco, an epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, he moved to Los Angeles where he participated in the care of approximately 50 patients who died from the disease. He now lives with his husband, Frank Jernigan, in San Francisco where he paints and is active in progressive politics.

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