Not for marking - student work. * Should we completely discount this treatment as useless, or could there be something gained from it? * When should a physician step in to stop a cultural practice? * Should the physician be concerned about alienating the mother and other people of her ethnicity from modern medicine? * Do you think that the physician should report the mother? *In mi opinion this treatment is useless and painful at the same time. I think that nothing can be earned burning human skin with an oil or gel. Even the opposite, human cells regenerate harmful parts of our bodies but not forever. If we do not care about our health, it could be deteriorated very quickly. *They should inform the right people or department in charge of this kind of problems. Not everyone knows how to act in such cases because it can be really difficult to convince someone that he is wrong and his tradition does not make sense. *I would say that it should not be the most important subject taught during a doctor education because their main function is to heal people. There would be specific professionals to deal with this topics. Although I consider that it can be important to have a background to know how to identify these problems and how to react. Especially now that the world is multicultural. *Of course he does. Some practises can be dangerous and they should not be done. It is the duty of doctors to report this type of actions.