Varughese M. D., Joseph

Joseph Varughese had flip after flip in his remarkable life. He grew up in a tiny village in Kerala, South India with no electricity. With his parents far away in Oman, he lived with his overbearing grandmother and aunt, and felt deprived of love. His aunt filled his mind with wild, ghostly tales that made him tremble in the dark. But he was gifted and alert. "Everything looked magical to me at that age," he says, and he watched rapt as a local healer relieved his mother's heart disease with "sweat therapy" and as the pharmacists miraculously pulled down just the right medicine from the myriad...