Patch Adams
Patch Adams
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adamsis an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
pie america giving
The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
spiritual mean action
For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
disease needs patient
We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,
gratitude bad-day sea
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
christian buddhist real
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.
focus problem solutions
If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.
dream running thinking
When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.
beautiful girl looks
When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.
nature stress moving
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
graduation dream joy
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
giving community society
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
antidote
Humor is an antidote to all ills
laughter cancer fighting
Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!
life science medicine
Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.