In “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall” by Anne Fadiman, the whole story revolves around Lia, the thirteenth child of the Lee family. The Lee family was a refugee family in the United States and Lia was their first child born in the United States. At the time of her birth, she was declared a healthy child, but at the age of three she was found to have epilepsy. In Western or scientific world words, the term epilepsy means mental disorder of a person and in Hmong culture, epilepsy is called qaug dab peg (translated into English, "the spirit catches you and you fall"), in which the epileptic's attacks are seen as evidence of the epileptic's ability to momentarily enter and travel into the spirit realm (Wikipedia, 2014). In this case, communication and medication adoption were the main difference in treating a Lia. Although Lia's parents and her doctors want the best for her, the above obstacles created a barrier to her treatment. They both didn't understand each other and the interpreter wasn't there either, the doctors want to transfer her to another better hospital because they weren't suffering from her illness, but her parents misunderstood the situation and thought they were transferring it for their own benefit. According to these beliefs, the Hmong also have many traditions and peoples that are negotiated by those in American standard and therapeutic groups; for example, some Hmong customarily perform personalized creature sacrifices and, given the very particular entombment customs and concern for the many souls of each human, accepted Hmong beliefs do not consider anyone to be undergoing surgery intrusive restorative. The medicinal framework of the Hmong depends...... middle of paper...... e.Lia Lee existed in a persistent vegetative state for 26 years. She kicked the bucket (died) in Sacramento, California on August 31, 2012 at the age of 30. At that age, she weighed 47 pounds (21 kg) and was 4 feet 7 inches (1.40 m) tall; Many children with severe brain injuries have limited development as they grow up. Fadiman said pneumonia was the immediate cause of death. (Farrar, 2014) In the United States, the therapeutic group rarely has approaches to correspond with individuals from societies so radically unique from standard American society; even a great interpreter will think that it is difficult to decipher ideas between the two distinct societies' ideas of reality. American specialists, not at all like Hmong shamans, regularly physically touch and cut their patients' collections and use an assortment of effective medications..