The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's
quest to bring free health care to the world and to
transform the way doctors practice medicine Tells the
story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the
health care system Released as a film from Universal
Pictures, starring Robin Williams Meet Patch Adams,
M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career
to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the
Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that
has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that
is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open
to anyone in the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes.
Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch.
Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick
children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll
down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary
to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical
schools and international conferences, Adams's
irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike
facade of the medical industry to address the caring
relationship between doctor and patient that is at the
heart of true medicine.All author royalties are used to
fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in
West Virginia. Adams' positive vision and plan for the
future is an inspiration for those concerned with the
inaccessibility of affordable, quality health
care.Today's high-tech medicine has become too costly,
impersonal, and grim. In his frequent lectures to
colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools,
and conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a
loving, creative, humorous human exchange--not a
business transaction. |
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