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How does culture affect your understanding of health?

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Complicated: Every culture has ideas about what causes disease and what it means. I generally reject unscientific ideas as simply untrue, but a physician must meet people on their own terms to be effective. A patient may think illness is "God's punishment / test", "from thinking bad thoughts", "from being weak", "caused by evil spirits" or caused by modern medical or food technology / immunizations or anything

Answered 12/30/2015

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