title: Culture shock in a university health service: a case and commentaries.
abstract: The detailed experience of one international student provides a case history in the use of college health services. His journey through the campus health center and outside referrals reveals important facets of student healthcare. It also offers some insights into foreign students' feelings as they contrast their health encounters with expectations carried from home. Four commentaries on the case attempt to draw inferences and to explain from various points of view what the student found in the course of seeking a diagnosis for rectal bleeding.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York at Buffalo.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ling
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: O'Shea
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Pszonak
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Bertram
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009518:New York; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013333:Student Health Services; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*