In the 1998 movie Robin Williams played Patch Adams, the funny doctor with a red clown’s nose, the young man who almost committed suicide but then found joy in becoming a physician and taking care of people. That movie made Patch Adams a folk hero but it also undermined the deeper meaning of the healing project that he and his friends were and are building today.
In this program Patch Adams gives a review of the history of his project, the Gesundheit Institute, <http://www.patchadams.org> lists some of the international activities on behalf of orphans, prevention of child sexual slavery and women’s mortality in childbirth. Adams now wants to build a full hospital based on the principles of healing that he laid out in this talk.
One week before this talk, Adams was invited by Republican congress members to talk about health care. This program includes his report of his defense of Single Payer to a group that had applauded Cheney and Rove a week earlier.
Patch Adams was recorded on July 5, 2009 in Willits, CA. Justin Briggs operated the audio system.
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