SACRAMENTO, CA - An area man was hospitalized yesterday after pharmacist Niles Kildare mistakenly switched his usual blood pressure medication with one that is culturally incompatible. This marks the third time this month that the medical profession has harmed a patient because of a cultural error and has raised the need for improved cultural training among medical professionals. According to a recent study published in the Aug 2008 edition of JAMA, patients were only asked about their ethnicity during five percent of doctor visits and they were asked about their religion less than 1 percent of the time. Furthermore, in instances when physicians do correctly diagnose a patient's culture, they continue to labor under an average of 3.4 cultural misconceptions. According to a spokesperson for the LCME, attendance at a minimum of 12 religious ceremonies and five cultural festivals may soon become a medical school graduation requirement. Currently, only 17 percent U.S. medical schools require their students to be members of a culture prior to graduation.
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how is a medication culturally incompatable? does that mean they will not take it because of a cultural prohibition?