In “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall” by Anne Fadiman, the whole story revolves around Lia, the thirteenth daughter 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 birth she was declared healthy, but at the age of three it was discovered that she suffers from epilepsy. In the words of the Western or scientific world the term epilepsy means a person's mental disorder and in the Hmong culture, epilepsy is called qaug dab peg (translated into English, "the spirit takes you and you fall"), in which the epileptic attacks are perceived as evidence of the epileptic's ability to momentarily enter and travel into the spirit realm (Wikipedia, 2014) In this case, communication and taking medications were the main difference in the treatment of a Lia. Although Lia's parents and her doctors want the best for her, the above barriers were creating an obstacle in her treatment. Both of them didn't understand each other and there was no interpreter either, the doctors want to transfer her to another better hospital because they were not treating her illness, but her parents misunderstood the situation and thought they were transferring her for their own benefit. In addition to these beliefs, the Hmong also have numerous traditions and peoples that are negotiated by those of the American Therapeutic and Standards groups; for example, some Hmong routinely perform custom animal sacrifices, and due to extremely particular burial customs and fears that the many souls of each human could potentially escape, accepted Hmong beliefs do not consider anyone undergoing restorative surgery invasive . The Hmong medicinal structure depends... half of the document... and. Lia Lee lived in a persistent vegetative state for 26 years. He 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 damage 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 match individuals from societies so drastically unique compared to standard American society; even a great interpreter will think that it is difficult to decipher the ideas between the ideas of reality of the two separate societies. American specialists, unlike Hmong shamans, regularly physically touch and cut the collections of their patients and use a variety of effective drugs and medications..