The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down
Submitted by sangell82 on June 23, 2010
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The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down
3. Fadiman does not tell us what the Lees did the first time Lia had a seizure. She does tell us that the Lees brought Lia to the emergency room for the first time on October 24, 1982 when she was only three months old (Fadiman, 1998, p. 25) and was admitted to the hospital seventeen times before the age of four and a half (Fadiman, 1998, p. 38). Because of the cultural and language barriers between the doctors and the Lees, there was a lot of mix up and confusion as to the medications that Lia should have been given As a result, the Lees were either giving Lia too much or too little medicine. Dan Murphy, one of the first physicians to encounter Lia at the hospital tells us that,...
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