Title: Cross-Cultural Communication in Health Care Sector
Contents
1. Introduction
a. Focuses on Anne Fadiman’s text, The spirit catches you and you fall down: A Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
b. Provides thesis of the paper, which is concentrating cross-cultural communication on the basis of Fadiman’s text.
2. Discussion: Dr. Dan Murphy is an effective cross-cultural communicator
3. Discussion Fadiman’s text based on Geert Hofstede’s individualistic dimension
4. Discusses if Dr. Murphy was a better cross-cultural communicator than Dr. Neil Ernst and Dr. Peggy Phillip.
5. Discussion: Cross-cultural tensions in the medical care sector
6. Discussion: Cross-cultural communication lessons for future health providers serving Hmong patients or patients from a different culture besides their own
7. References
Word count (without references): 2,166 (7.22 pages)