This website examines how applied and critical medical anthropology could have been utilized to help save Lia Lee. "Medical anthropology studies the human experience of disease in cross-cultural, historic, and evolutionary perspective. It provides a point of connection for biological, cultural, and applied research" (Joralemon 2010: ix). It is important to look at the medical field with a cross-cultural perspective because we can learn more from viewing medical practices across the world rather than just looking at our own culture to find the answers. Like in Ann Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down we see a clash of cross-cultural healing practices but in a negative connotation. Not every culture agrees with or understands Western medical practices, the Hmong especially. So in the case of the Lee family, their was no trust between the doctors and no mutual respect between the Hmong family and the doctors. The Hmong version of a doctor is Shaman and in 2009, Brown wrote an article that described how the shaman was introduced to Western medical practices to get a better understanding,"The policy and a novel training program to introduce Shamans to the principles of Western medicine are part of a national movement to consider to consider patients' cultural beliefs and values when deciding their medical treatment. This approach is being adopted by many medical institutions that handle immigrants, refugees, and ethnic-minority populations... During a seven week training program, 89 shamans learned elements of Western-style medicine, including germ theory and looking through microscopes to look at various cells" (A Doctor for Disease, a Shaman for the Soul). What we can learn from reading Fadiman's book and understanding the different branches of medical anthropology along with cultural competency would be that mutual respect needs to be given in order to first understand how different cultures work but also how medical practices should be carried out in a way that is safe and comfortable for the patient and the doctor doing the surgery and/or treatment.