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10. Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)

August 04, 2023 Dr. Pierce Salguero & Dr. Lan Li Episode 10
Blue Beryl
10. Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)
Show Notes

Today I sit down with two guests, Ounkham Souksavanh and Elizabeth Elliott, to talk about community engagement and community health in Laos. We discuss how Elizabeth as a medical anthropologist, and Ounkham as a physician, work together to build trust and improve healthcare access across an ethnically and religiously diverse landscape. Along the way, we learn about Elizabeth’s experience of foraging for herbs and Ounkham’s memories of growing up with traditional medicine in his family. If you want to learn about the landscape of Lao traditional healers and medicinal plants — with a few snake bites and plant talismans thrown in — then this episode is for you!

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