![]() ![]() When a new editor canceled the story, Fadiman decided to turn her research into a book instead. She left her job as a staff writer at Life to turn the story into a three-part article for the New Yorker. Fadiman believed it would be revealing to tell a medical story from both the doctors' and patients' point of view. Bill shared how his Hmong patients were incredibly interesting but also very difficult, as they rarely complied with doctors' instructions and had taboos against many medical procedures. ![]() The story shows the tragic consequences of a lack of cross-cultural communication and reveals the weaknesses of western medicine in caring for patients with beliefs that are different from that of their doctors.įadiman first became interested in writing the story after talking with her friend Bill Selvidge, the chief resident of family practice at the country hospital in Merced. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is the poignant story of a young Hmong girl suffering from epilepsy who is caught in the cultural chasm between her family and her rationalist American doctors. ![]()
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