Hispanic Patient Diversity

Diversity

“Providing Culture-Sensitive Healthcare to Hispanic/Latino Patients”

A Hispanic patient with a high fever may resist cold compress because their theory of “hot” and “cold” imbalance. They use hot things to cure cold and cold thing to cure the body being “hot”. For instance within the American medical field we use heat foe hot. If you’re running a fever things that makes you sweat it out are better. So the difficulties that the Hispanic patient will bring is simply not following the physician’s orders and not willing to cooperate with the medicine distributed and prescribed.

Susto (soul loss) is basically the Hispanic’s version of someone who is ignores their medical problems and risks. They are so stressed and worried