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"A Case of Culture: How Cultural Brokers Bridge Divides in Healthcare
There are three major healing traditions in the world: Western biomedicine, supernatural healing, and holistic healing. In a world of increasingly blended cultures, languages, and traditions, what happens when these contrasting healing practices clash? In A Case of Culture, author Snigdha Nandipati delves into the unspoken challenges that immigrant patients face when seeking healthcare in the West, exploring how we can bridge these cultural divides in our healthcare system. The solution? Cultural brokers.In this book, readers will learn how cultural brokers advocate for their patients, enhance the patient-doctor relationship, and build cultural humility in the healthcare setting through stories such as:the hospitalist who revived her unconscious elderly Indian patient by calling her Aunty 8221 the Latino Evangelical priest who used his sermon to encourage worshippers to get vaccinated against COVID-19the psychiatrist who gained the trust of his Telugu patient with the skillful
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