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

“…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.”

“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?”