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Lok first came to the Indo-Chinese clinic 9 years ago. I cannot forget the initial interview nor her story. She was a small Cambodian woman (the nurse’s note listed her weight as 113 pounds) who appeared older than her 58 years. Her face reflected fatigue and sadness, yet grace. Ben, the Cambodian mental health worker, had told me a little about her before she came. She was referred from a private physician and had multiple complaints of nausea, headache, arm pain, shoulder pain, and also symptoms of poor sleep and depression. The private physician was treating her for diabetes, and she was on an oral hypoglycemic agent. Ben noted that she had had a very traumatic life in Cambodia. She had suffered many losses with which we now have become familiar from any Pol Pot patient.
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Kinzie, J.D., Engdahl, B. (2001). Professional Caregiver and Observer Issues. In: Gerrity, E., Tuma, F., Keane, T.M. (eds) The Mental Health Consequences of Torture. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1295-0_19
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