"That's All You Have to Say?" Two Ways of Understanding Healing

A story that lays bare a gulf in worldview: a doctor, ten years of training behind them, with little to offer an Indigenous Samoan child who lost his eye. This clip contrasts how healing is understood in Western medicine with how Samoans and Native Pacific Islanders understand it — as something inseparable from family relationships and from the land itself. A reminder that healing isn't only clinical; for many, it's relational and rooted in place.

Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4