Medical Humanities 11/29/16

[1:15] The spirit catches you and you fall down

• Pop Quiz: Review
• Girls Name?
• Lia Lee
• Hmong Originally from and where they live now?
• California is where they live now and they originated from China
• Book Review
• Lee Family
• The mother: Fova
• The father: Nao Kao
• Lots of children
• Can't speak english
• Heavily impacts communication for doctors
• Birth Process and Children Relationships
• The placentas is buried
• Careful to not call their children pretty aloud unless the dab listens.
• Illness
• Soul-Loss is the worst illness of them all (End of Chapter 1)
• Lia lee is dealing with epilepsy. (occurs often)
• Doctor best care?
• Symbols
• Dab= The evil spirit
• The Spirit Catches you and you fall down: Epilepsy
• Unclean physically and spiritually: Leprosy

[2:40] “Fish Soup. That’s the essence of the Hmong”

1. Hmong(Eastern)
1. “hais cuaj txub kaum txub” (to speak of all kinds of things)
1. No event occurs in isolation
2. Likely to start with “the beginning of the world” when telling a fable(Story)
1. Holistic
2. Invisible/Spirits
3. Very close with children