Only The Doctors Fault For Lia's Life

Some might disagree with Fadiman’s claim because they might think that it is only the doctors’ fault or only the Lees’ fault for Lia’s life. Because it a doctor’s job to take care of their patients, some might think that the doctors should have done better to make Lia’s life better or make communicating easier. For example, the Lees should have been provided with a quality interpreter so that the doctors would have better understood the Lees’ needs. On the other hand, it is also the parents' job to love and take care of their children. The Lees were not compliant simply because they did not believe in Western tradition, but they did not think that their own decisions would impact their own daughter. The Lees’ ignorance to Western tradition caused their daughter to be taken away from them several times. The parents should be trying to take care of their children, not have them be taken away from their own care.
The fault should not fall on any one party, but on how each party treated each other. They treated each other with ignorance and noncompliance without acknowledging others’ beliefs or traditions. If the fault were to fall an anyone, it should fall on both parties because the doctors failed to acknowledge the Lees beliefs, and the Lees failed to acknowledge the doctors’ traditions. In a place where a child’s life is at danger, people should not be disagreeing on what to do because it only makes it harder to choose what to do for the child. Instead, they should be trying to communicate and come to a consensus with each other so that they understand each other’s intentions and find a common