This article intends to redefine health care professionals' roles in providing optimum care to their consumers. To become culturally competent not only encompasses being knowledgeable of specific groups' beliefs, practices, or behavior, but to continuously provide a standard level of care. Specifically, the use of folk remedies among Latinos in the United States is discussed.
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