Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id OAA04807; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:40:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:40:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <387A339A.F4FBC4D8@amc.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Kim Riley" <rileyk@amc.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2115] Re: Invited Guest X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) Status: OR My two questions for Anne Fadiman are: 1) Is the girl still alive and living in Merced? 1) Does Anne maintain communication with MCMC in Merced to know what they are doing now if anything to better facilitate communication with Hmong families who seek medical care there- or who don't seek care, but are out there in the community (and I mean more than having interpreters on staff. They already had that from what I gather reading the book)? Thanks for arranging that Helen. Helen Osborne wrote: > Last month, many of you shared your thoughts and ideas about NIFL-Health. > You spoke highly about this discussion group, and said you value it as a > forum to interact with colleagues at all levels of expertise. You also gave > some specific suggestions to improve NIFl-Health, and one was to invite > special guests to the list, as we have done in the past. > > Great news! Anne Fadiman, author or "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall > Down" and "Ex Libris" has agreed to contribute to our discussion. For those > of you who are not familiar with her work, "The Spirit Catches You." is > about "a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two > cultures" (quote on the cover of the book) and is a winner of the National > Book Critics Circle Award. There was an active discussion about this book on > NIFL-Health several months ago, and the postings can be found in our > archives (www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-health/health_literacy.html) > > Anne Fadiman has agreed to answer up to a dozen questions about > cross-cultural medical care. It seems the easiest way to make this happen is > for you to send your questions to me by January 17th. I will then > cluster/organize/summarize them, and forward them to Anne Fadiman. She, > then, will respond towards the end of January. > > A one-time only guest is a new model for our discussion group - and > hopefully will be a workable way to "converse" with a noted author. > Together, let's make it work! > > Helen Osborne, MEd., OTR/L > Co-moderator, NIFL-Health > & > Health Literacy Consulting, Natick, MA > Phone: 508-653-1199 * Fax: 508-650-9492 > Helen@healthliteracy.com * www.healthliteracy.com
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