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Medicine Woman | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer
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7/27/2024
America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) studied medicine at a time when few women dared. She | dG1fSGpwZjdOVERFRWc
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It has always been a desire of mine to study medicine, ever since I was a small girl.
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For even then, I saw the needs of my people for a good physician.
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What does it take to heal a people?
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Sometimes I have to take a break, just burn a little and just say a little prayer, you
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know.
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I don't know what I'm going to face when I walk through those hospital doors.
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If I don't do this, I will not become a physician.
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If I do become a physician, I may be able to take care of thousands of patients.
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I may be able to save hundreds of lives.
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When I first came here, I could be on call every other night and I could save lives.
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And I did.
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One of the lives she saved was that of her adopted son.
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When he was born, he had a lot of medical issues.
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He went through withdrawal.
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And he knows how to say wakalapi.
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Coffee, wakalapi.
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So that's his favorite word.
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That's why I feel that there's so much alcohol and drug use, because they don't have a center.
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The spiritual piece of us is so small.
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That spark is so tiny.
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Why don't I use what's right in my backyard?
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That's what kept us alive.
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I mean, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for our own medicine.
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She told me that I needed to pray.
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And so I used my beating and it was really, it was really comforting.
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When a way of life is shattered, it's often the women who become the healers.
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Meet the first Native American doctor and the women who follow in her footsteps.
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