Hmong History
The Hmong in Laos trained to fight in this by American Soldiers.
What is the Vietnam War?
The President that dispatched the CIA to train the Hmong in Vietnam.
What is President John F. Kennedy?
The name of the hospital Lia was transferred to.
What is Valley Children's Hospital?
The number of the last admission that Lia had to MCMC.
What is The Sixteenth Admission?
The misunderstanding that the Lees had about medical urgency in Western culture.
What is An Ambulance Creating More Urgency or Attention?
The rate that Hmong soldiers died in comparison to American soldiers.
What is Ten-to-One?
The people that the doctors in Fresno would look at, rather than Lia's parents.
What is Jeanine Hilt and Lia's foster parents (Dee and Tom Korda)?
The length of Lia's ambulance ride to Fresno.
What is Seventy Minutes?
A common symptom of Septic Shock that Lia experienced.
What is Diarrhea or Low Platelets?
The doctors believed this about the Lees, leading to them talking to the foster parents and civil worker for Lia instead.
What is Believing they were Stupid and Unfamiliar with Western Culture?
Laos is based between these three countries, making it "cursed by its strategic location".
What is Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand?
The leader of the Hmong army in Vietnam.
What is Vang Pao?
The factor identified as "American medicine at its worst".
What is "reducing a girl to an analyzable collection of symptoms"?
Daily Double
One of the medications that Lia was given as a result of her Septic Shock.
What is Dopamine, Epinephrine, Valium, etc.?
The cultural misunderstanding made by Terry Hutchinson about the Lees' opinion on Lia's condition.
What is Wanting a Natural Death?
The name of the Hmong group that was trained to fight for the Royal Lao.
What is Armée Clandestine?
The critical care specialist that treated Lia.
What is Dr. Maciej Kopacz?
The startling sentence that concludes Lia's treatment at Fresno.
The name of Lia's blood clot disorder.
What is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation?
The unique feature prioritized in the creation of Hmong houses and arts.
What is Portability?
The currency that replaced silver as a means of exchange for the Hmong.
What is Lao kip?
The family practice resident that Anne quotes multiple times about Lia's treatment.
What is Steve Segerstrom?
The date Lia was requested to be transferred back to MCMC from Fresno. (Month, Day, & Year)
What is December 5th, 1986?
The infection that Lia's blood tested positive for.
What is Psuedomonas Aeuginosa?
The curse that Nao Kao uses on the doctors and what it means.
What is Tsov Tom and "Tiger Bite"?