http://www.metafilter.com/tags/thespiritcatchesyouandyoufalldown Posts tagged with 'thespiritcatchesyouandyoufalldown' at MetaFilter. Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:52:24 -0800 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:52:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/119961/The%2DSpirit%2DCatches%2DLia%2DLee%2DRIP First published in 1997, Anne Fadiman's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Catches_You_and_You_Fall_Down">book</a> The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, a chronicle of a Hmong refugee family's <a href="http://www.hmongnet.org/publications/spirit_review.html">interactions</a> with the American medical system in the face of a child's devastating <a href="http://thinkingdr.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/anne-fadimans-the-spirit-catches-you-and-you-fall-down-a-hmong-child-her-american-doctors-and-the-collision-of-two-cultures/">illness</a>, has become highly recommended, if not required, reading for many medical students and health care professionals, over the past 15 years quietly changing how <a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/09/caused-disease.html">young doctors</a> <a href="http://necromancyneverpays.blogspot.com/2011/01/spirit-catches-you-and-you-fall-down.html">approach patients</a> from different cultures. On August 31, with little publicity, Lia Lee, the young girl who inspired the book, after living most of her life in a persistent vegetative state, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/us/life-went-on-around-her-redefining-care-by-bridging-a-divide.html?pagewanted=all">quietly died</a> <small>[NYT obit]</small>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.119961 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:52:24 -0800 annefadiman crossculturalmedicine epilepsy hmong lialee medicine obit obituary thespiritcatchesyouandyoufalldown Slarty Bartfast