Dr. Neil Ernst decided to call child protective services when Lia Lee's parents Nou Kou and Foua were reluctant to give her her medicine. Dr. Neil Ernst said: "I felt it was important for these Hmongs to understand that there were certain elements of medicine that we understood better than they did and that there were certain rules they had to follow with their kids' lives. I wanted the word to get out in the community that if they deviated from that, it was not acceptable behavior."(pg. 79 Fadiman). Dr. Ernst could have also been arrested for not reporting it. There were some alternatives to calling Child Protective Services such as my favorite one; having a nurse visit the Lees' three times daily to administer the medications, but this thought did not

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