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A Week with the Gypsies: A Medical Mission Diary
[...]it recalibrates one’s career and medical expectations when caring for the medically deprived. “Gypsy” is a term that gadjé (non-Romani people) call an ethnic group who migrated West around the eleventh century from Punjabi, India.1 Whereas the lowercase word gypsy is perceived as a racial slur (eg, “that cashier gypped me”), others prefer Gypsy when it is used respectfully. Reclaiming the Gypsy Diaspora is now seen as an act of linguistic and identity empowerment.2 Professional practice standards and my instinct suggested that asking the patients their preference would be the best approach to determine how they wanted to be addressed. Regional infant mortality was 36.4% without proper prenatal care, immunizations, and well-baby visits.3 Barriers are lack of safe water, vitamins, and antibiotics for sexually transmitted diseases. Many of the Romani injuries and illnesses we saw were a direct result of the Gypsy milieu: continuous forced migrations, social discrimination, and centuries of hardship. The answers are both yes and no; local governments offer free immunizations, nongovernmental organizations and other medical clinics are sometimes available, and unemployment benefits and child benefits exist. Pottery, horsemanship, metal forging and leafing, relief-worked jewelry, intricate art, folk music, costumes, dance, spiced stews, and roasts delighted my senses and helped me appreciate that the world is a small place, and we, its inhabitants, must get along.
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