I can not purely identify with the situation of the Lee's but can sure understand the perspective. To my understand the Lee's were ousted from having any input into the care of their daughter Lia. To me, it seems the doctors were using Lia to experiment with all different type of medications to see what would work and disregarded all the possible side effect the could arise. Lia's parent was against all the heavy medicating, but all the doctor wanted to do was keep giving her medications. The Hmong culture was not completely against biomedicine, but rather feared the negative impact it has on the human body. Also in the Hmong culture, Lia's epilepsy was more of a spiritual condition rather than a physical problem. If Lia was in her parent's
