“When I asked Dan Murphy why he thought caring for the Hmong caused so much stress, he said,”People in the early years of their medical careers have invested an incredible amount of time and energy and pain in their training, and they have been taught that what they’ve learned in medical school is the only legitimate way to approach health problems. I think that is why some young doctors go though the roof when Hmong patients reject what we have to offer them, because it intimates that what Western medicine has to offer is not much.”
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