The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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Read Anne Fadiman’s book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and write a reflective paper of 4-6 pages
Read Anne Fadiman’s book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and write a reflective paper of 4-6 pages. The paper should be Ariel or Times New Roman. You should include at least three quality references and you should use APA format and style for citing them

Read Anne Fadiman’s book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and write a reflective paper of 4-6 pages. The paper should be Ariel or Times New Roman. You should include at least three quality references and you should use APA format and style for citing them.
This paper is due February 3rd at midnight. Post it to the assignments drop box and to Turnitin.com.

The paper should include the following:
1. Title Page
2. Introduction Paragraph
3. General reflections on the book
a. Did you like the book? Why or why not?
b. What did you learn from reading this book?
c. Will your clinical practice change in response to reading this book?
4. In your opinion, what did the US healthcare system do correctly in the care of this child and her family? What did we do wrong?
5. In your opinion, what has been done since the writing of this book to improve health care outcomes for individuals who come from other cultures or countries who receive care in the US? What more can be done to improve care?
6. Conclusion Paragraph
7. References (use APA format).

Personal points to make some reflections:
-Sacrifice of one’s life saves many others?point in history
-Lia and family escaped from communist Laos ?I emigrated with my family from communist Russia? I was in refugee camp in Italy? left everything behind?had idiosyncratic English (p.157) when arrived to US? from a high status my family enjoyed in Russia for a communal dormitory living in Italy and Austria
-My grandmother taught me how to use herbs and I saw their positive actions? because of this experience I believe in natural medicine
-Hmong who grew up in world of Shamans and spirits believe that their daughter’s soul or spiritual body needed to move back into her body in order to heal
-epilepsy in Hmong language = when spirit catches you and you will fall
-epilepsy = one main possible mechanism for epilepsy is gene mutation that could cause changes in sodium channel. Prolonged open sodium channel could cause high glutamate release by neuron hyperexcitable and as a result, it will cause excessive calcium release from post-synapses (needs citation).
-Reflections on my life: Lia was taken from parents ? my son was kidnapped at the age 3.5 yo. I had emotional stress until I found him after 6 month. I would never wish to any parent such experience. Acculturation, language barrier
-story is an educational tool for both Hmong parents and doctors: questioning Doc’s and their listening to parents skills
-when I finish reading this book I asked myself a question what is my purpose in life? Why am I here? Their child grown into 30 years old adult lived and died so we all can learn humanity from this experience
-p.163 Dang Moua….trying to nurse from death breast of the death mother? had flash back in the store in Russia two years ago 18 y.o mother walked into store (I was in before my flight back to US) with 2 mo old child asking for food since she did not have a milk because she was hungry? nobody responded to her, looked away ?maybe they only could buy for their family?I cried on the way to airport after giving all money I had to a mother? thinking how many children are abounded and dying in the world of Armani and Gucci

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