The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman · first published 1997 · ISBN 9780374700096
Fadiman documents the collision between a Hmong family and American medical providers over their daughter's epilepsy care. The book shifts between medical fact, cultural explanation, and family perspective to show how clinicians and patients speak past each other. It's part medical mystery, part anthropology, part indictment of cultural blindness.
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For a CRNA working in diverse communities, this book is a master class in humility. It shows how your protocols and assumptions can override the patient's reality and why you need to listen harder than you think you do.