Gabriella’s Reviews > The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures > Status Update
Gabriella
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“…I was thinking that when she said she was stupid, what she really meant was none of her former skills were transferable to the United States-none, that is, except for being an excellent mother to her nine surviving children.”
— Jun 29, 2026 02:00PM
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Gabriella
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“Lia’s case had confirmed the Hmong community’s worst prejudices about the medical profession and the medical community’s worst prejudices about the Hmong.”
— Jul 03, 2026 09:30PM
Gabriella
is 54% done
It’s tragic how the family and their people went from being super independent, working their own land and being self-sufficient, to being fully dependent on welfare. The Americans around them have no idea how much they have lost or how much they have changed, despite how grounded the Hmong still remain in their cultural traditions.
— Jul 03, 2026 01:58PM
Gabriella
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“Which would have been more discriminatory, to deprive Lia of the optimal care another child would have received, or to fail to tailor her treatment in such a way that her family would be most likely to comply with it?”
— Jun 25, 2026 07:56AM
