Less likely to use
formal health care
services such as
those reimbursed
under Medicare,
because of cultural
and language
differences and
distrust of Western
medicine.
Many Chinese find
some aspects of
Western medicine
(e.g., diagnostic
tests) distasteful.
Some are upset by
the drawing of blood.
Hospital is an alien
place to the
Chinese; hospital
food is strange and
is served in an
unfamiliar manner.