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This 4 page paper concludes that there are communication and cultural gaps between the Hmong and Americans, and this is something that can lead to a reduction of proper medical treatment and preventative care. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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take into consideration specific tendencies of various populations, there are sometimes communication barriers that get in the way. Sometimes, those barriers involve language but sometimes they only involve customs. For
example, certain cultures frown on the use of condoms so it is difficult to counsel certain men to protect themselves against AIDS. In general, communication barriers can be devastating. Underwood,
Adler & Pape (2005) report on the case of Lia Lee, a baby born in the 1980s in America to Hmong parents. She suffered from seizures and the doctors presumed
it to be epilepsy but the parents thought it was related to a soul problem (Underwood, Adler & Pape, 2005). Because her parents thought she had a spiritual and not
a medical problem, they only gave her medication occasionally and relied on amulets from Thailand (Underwood, Adler & Pape, 2005). They changed her name to change her luck, but the
doctors kept calling her Lia against her parents wishes (Underwood, Adler & Pape, 2005). Her mother attributes the downturn to the doctors not calling her by the new name (Underwood,
Adler & Pape, 2005). Without proper compliance from parents, Lia had a massive seizure and went into septic shock (Underwood, Adler & Pape, 2005). It plunged her into a persistent
vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & Pape, 2005). This is clearly a case of miscommunication and a failure for doctors
to understand culture. The case of Lia Lee is just one example of a communication problem, but it is also an example of the problems the Hmong who live in
America face. The Hmong are actually a Laotian hill tribe with a culture that goes back more than three thousand years (Emery, 2002). Early on, the Hmong lived in China
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