AHHHHHHHHHHH! What did you think of it?
Here's my review of it:
I feel the need to point out the worst book ever recommended to premeds, because if I don't some bleeding heart little dipwad will come in here and post about how it is such a great book......the book? The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down......
It is the most worthless piece of bleeding heart, politically correct bull**** I have ever had the displeasure or reading. It's the sort of thing that aggregiously affluent white suburbanites read in order to make themselves feel better about their shallow existence and to feel superior because the "understand" the plight of the "poor" Hmong family. It's the liberal equivalent of masturbation since it benefits no one else but themselves- it certainly doesn't benefit pediatric patients to allow the ignorance, stupidity or just plain backwardness of their parents to cost them their health and/or their lives....all so we don't offend someone and can be "culturally sensitive".
I am not one who normally advocates banning books nor burning them. That, however, is one book I personally would like to see every copy of burned down to ashes and then the ashes pissed upon to make them cool enough to be loaded into bags for disposal in the deepest, most dank recess of an abandoned guano mine that can be found. Then the full length of the mine should be rigged with explosives which would be set off after someone makes sure all of the bats are out safely.
Anne Fadiman should be summarily executed- preferrably in a slow, meaningful and excruciatingly painful manner (think crucifixion above a nest of fire ants)- not lauded for writing that piece of drivel, because it was so slow, pointless and excruciatingly painful to read. The child's parents should have rotted in prison for letting their own superstitions get in the way of proper medical care for her, not been used as fodder for an insipid book. And I don't mean a soft American prison, I'm talking an S-21 style Cambodian prison.
If we can't say "s__t", "f__k" or "mother____er" on SDN without it being replaced automatically with **** then I request that the title of a book that is best described as being suitable for wiping the **** from one's butt should be similarly blocked from public view.
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