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The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, And The Collision Of Two Cultures,New Garrett Desperate NeedWhen Threemonthold Lia Lee Arrived At The County Hospital Emergency Room In Merced, California, A Chain Of Events Was Set In Motion From Which Neither She Nor Her Parents Nor Her Doctors Would Ever Recover. Lia'S Parents, Foua And Nao Kao, Were Part Of A Large Hmong Community In Merced, Refugees From The Ciarun 'Quiet War' In Laos. The Hmong, Traditionally A Closeknit And Fiercely People, Have Been Less Amenable To Assimilation Than Most Immigrants,