Spirit catches you and you fall

Final Paper What I will be covering in my paper is how communication was the biggest role in what happened to Lia. If Lia's parents better understood the doctors it could have prevented a lot of things. But however, if the American Doctors knew about the Hmong people's culture, language and the Lee's thoughts on what was going on with Lia it also could have been prevented a lot. The Lee's thought the reason why Lia was sick was because her sister slammed the door too loud and it caused her soul to leave her body and become lost. However, the Doctors said she had epilepsy. Both of them had different views of what was going on with Lia, spiritual problem and mental problem. The American doctors should have had a few translators early in treatment that was familiar with the Hmong people that could explain to them and Doctors the cultural difference of what each party thought was going on. The Doctors and Hmong people faced many troubles and barriers when trying to communicate with each other. Doctors should be more educated and experienced with patients they deal with like their language, culture and history. If the doctors knew more about the Hmong people and their religions it could have prevented so much.
The Hmong people didn’t understand the American treatment that the doctors were doing on their child Lia. They would give the Hmong people directions to follow but they didn’t follow the directions because they really didn’t understand what was going on in the American culture. It was medications that the doctors prescribed to Lia but her parents didn’t give them to her correctly because they really were not taught how. Not until a few visits later doctors had a translator available but that really didn’t help because the Lee’s still seemed confused about the medication. But that still wouldn’t help them because, " if lia prescriptions haven't been changed so often, her parents might have been less confused and more confident that the doctors knew what they