Analysis Of The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman

"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" the book by Anne Fadiman is an interesting book that contains different situations where different cultures and traditions clashes as a result of different barriers. In this brief work I tried to shed light on some of these barriers that could exist in our clinical practice and how these barriers could be understood in different cultures. On the other hand, there is no doubt that cultural differences play an important role in problems analysis as well as the illness differential diagnosis, that is why it is important for policy makers and legislatives to set goals that help in including people from diverse cultures into health care systems such as the one of the United States of America. Finally,
One of the challenges that faces the United States health care system is to respond to the continues changes and to the reality of that these changes might result in consequences that often ignored or underestimated. Health care providers should be aware that patients from diverse cultures do not present at the doctor offices with their illness only, but they bring their lives that include their cultures, traditions in addition to their families’ history. The training period for health care professionals mainly concentrates on instructing professionals how to clinically manage the patients’ diseases as seen from the point view of doctors. However, illness is the problem that is seen from the point view of the patient (Gerrard & Vernon,
• Respecting the cultural diversity.
• Respecting the linguistic traditions.
• Respecting the care preferences.
• Providing medical decisions that fit needs and strength values of practitioners and families at the level they desire.
• Negotiating about the desired outcome of the medical care plans.
• The medical care should reflect children within their context that include home, school and their community (Kuo et al., 2012). The United States health care system is evolving. Many changes have been made since the writing of this book to transform it to a managed care system from being a system with an indemnity plan that based on the patients’ needs. The cultural beliefs and values are not the only factors that drove this change. However, the economic factors and the related health care expenditures required the United Sates government to take measurement to improve the health care outcome by increasing the access to health care services and make it affordable to more