Four doctors, one broken system, and the oath that followed them across oceans.
Le serment d’Hippocrate follows the struggle of four immigrant doctors trying to find their place in the Quebec healthcare system. This film puts faces to the lives, journeys, and struggles of these unsung heroes who, nevertheless, had also taken the august Hippocratic Oath in their distant countries.
Direction
Zouaoui refuses easy heroes, finds complexity in exhaustion.
Writing
Doctors' own words, no narrator needed.
Director
Nadia Zouaoui
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Quebec's medical credential recognition system has faced criticism for decades; this film arrives as the province simultaneously courts immigrant workers and maintains exclusionary barriers.
The title's irony deepens with each story — the oath binds them to heal, but the system won't let them practice.
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