Le Chœur des femmes Quotes

“A healer is someone whose hand the patient wants to hold.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“I will not be satisfied with playing doctor! Not like other so-called health professionals who treat their patients with disdain!! Doctors are healers! They shouldn't act like judges or cops! What kind of doctor do you want to be, huh? A healer or a cop?”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“You will not stop them from dying. At best, you will stop them from dying today.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“What a woman is feeling is much more important than what you know... Every time that you interrupt a patient, you are preventing her from speaking her truth, and you make her doubt herself.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“Medical textbooks never talk about the pain that's caused by anything that doctors do... And many doctors think that the pain is justified "if it's for the patient's good." That is never true. The least we can do, as healers, is everything in our power not to cause pain.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“If a woman is asking for birth control, it's because she needs it. The request itself is enough.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“Women's sexual activity is none of our business. If they themselves volunteer the information freely, then fine. But what right do we have to know straightaway who they're fucking, how often, and in what positions?”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“Doctors who want power will do anything to get it; healers will do anything to get away from it.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“Share what you know. Your patients will repay you hundredfold.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes