The ethnographic text centers on a Hmong refugee family who came from Laos to California and whose daughter, Lia Lee, develops a severe medical affliction that requires her family to regularly visit a U.S. hospital. It looks to examine the United States healthcare system as a thoroughly Westernized institution whose doctors are lacking in "cultural competence," leading to miscommunication and obstacles in the recovery of Lia.
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