Miriam Vail’s Reviews > The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures > Status Update

Oh wow so the parents weren’t wrong. This just turns my stomach

This welfare vs foster care money discrepancy don’t make sense

Thank goodness this was the foster mom she got

I do see a definite trend of the Hmong being treated like animals
“Veterinary medicine” and failure to secure adequate interpretation.

Yeah I don’t love “trying to teach the community a lesson” philosophy

I firmly believe the best treatment plan is one that a patient will actually agree with

Dr.Fife gets it. Patient autonomy matters. Period. He’s also providing better care as it happens and avoiding procedures with dangerous complications. Give the women their placentas!

Oh, not loving this blatant racist behavior from an obstetrician in the 80s, but also I’m not surprised

Even with all those barriers, the Hmong could see doctors at odds with the system

This is a really hard case, but I still feel that this was the wrong move