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
justice giving care
Please give your life to peace, justice and care.
party opportunity being-thankful
If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!
suffering physicians roles
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
liars years fake
My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.
kindness nasty century
Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?
sleep departed debt
Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."
goal trying acting
You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
giving feel-good feels
I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good.
war mean goal
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
laughter people essentials
People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.
groups helping humans
For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.
compassion doctors cures
If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate .. (but) I can have a 100 percent compassion rate,'.
doctors justice people
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
life science medicine
Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.