Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT.
Yale J Biol Med. 2020 Dec 29;93(5):765-767. eCollection 2020 Dec.
In medicine, we tend to think of food as being equivalent to nutrition, and food allergies are understood primarily as a biomedical process. In this piece, I explore how my experience with food allergies intersects with my cultural identity as a second-generation Indian-American. I also offer insights from my experiences in medical training and practice and reflect on the responsibility of health providers to understand the social and cultural context of food allergies.
在医学领域，我们倾向于将食物等同于营养，并且主要将食物过敏理解为一种生物医学过程。在这篇文章中，我探讨了作为一名第二代印度裔美国人，我自身的食物过敏经历如何与我的文化身份产生交集。我还分享了自己在医学培训和实践中的经验，并思考了医疗服务提供者有责任理解食物过敏的社会和文化背景。
