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Dec 14, 2009  Time for another instalment of The Skeptical Samurai’s Guide to the Movies! This week’s movie: Patch Adams. Hunter “Patch” Adams is an American physician known for his alternative approach to “traditional” medicine. Mar 06, 2007  In the movie Patch Adams, is the part where his girlfriend Corrine Fisher gets murdered based on actual events.

Hunter Doherty 'Patch' Adams (born May 28, 1945) is 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 and they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people.^[1]

Adams is currently based in Urbana, Illinois. In collaboration with the institute, he promotes an alternative health care model not funded by insurance policies.^[1]

• 1Early life

Early life[edit]

Adams was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Anna Campbell Stewart (née Hunter) and Robert Loughridge Adams.^[2][3] His maternal grandfather, Thomas Lomax Hunter, was the Poet Laureate of Virginia. His father, an officer in the United States Army, had fought in Korea, and died while stationed in Germany when Adams was only 16.^[1] After his father's death, Adams returned to the United States with his mother and brother. Adams has stated that upon his return he encountered institutional injustice which made him a target for bullies at school. As a result, Adams was unhappy and became actively suicidal. After being hospitalized three times in one year for wanting to end his life, he decided 'you don't kill yourself, stupid; you make revolution.'^[4]

Early career[edit]

After graduating in 1963 from Wakefield High School,^[5] Adams completed pre-med coursework at George Washington University. He began medical school without an undergraduate degree, and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at Virginia Commonwealth University (Medical College of Virginia) in 1971. In the late 1960s one of his closest friends (a man, not a woman as depicted in the Patch Adams film) was murdered. Convinced of the powerful connection between environment and wellness, he believes the health of an individual cannot be separated from the health of the family, community, and the world. While working in an adolescent clinic at MCV, in his final year of med school, he met Linda Edquist, a fellow VCU student who volunteered in the clinic.

Adams and Edquist married in 1975 and had two sons, Atomic Zagnut 'Zag' Adams and Lars Zig Edquist Adams; they divorced in 1998.

Gesundheit! Institute[edit]

Soon after graduation, Patch, Linda, and friends founded the Gesundheit! Institute (originally known to many as the Zanies), which ran as a free community hospital from 1971 to 1984.

A revamped Gesundheit! Institute, envisioned as a free, full-scale hospital and health care eco-community, is planned on 316 acres (128 ha) in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Its goal is to integrate a traditional hospital with alternative medicine, with the organization developing educational programs in sustainable systems design targeted to medical students and the general public.

Since the 1990s Adams has supported the Ithaca Health Alliance (IHA),^[7] founded as the Ithaca Health Fund (IHF) by Paul Glover. In January 2006 IHA launched theIthaca Free Clinic, bringing to life key aspects of Adams' vision. Adams has also given strong praise to Health Democracy, Glover's book written and published the same year.

In October 2007, Adams and the Gesundheit Board unveiled its campaign to raise $1 million towards building a Teaching Center and Clinic on its land in West Virginia. The Center and Clinic will enable Gesundheit to see patients and teach health care design.

Adams urges medical students to develop compassionate connections with their patients. His prescription for this kind of care relies on humor and play, which he sees as essential to physical and emotional health. Ultimately, Adams wants the Gesundheit! Institute to open a 40-bed hospital in rural West Virginia that offers free, holistic care to anyone who wants it.^[8]

Adams was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award on January 29, 1997.^[9]

In 2008, Adams agreed to become honorary chair of the 'International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment' or IAACM. MindFreedom International, a nonprofit coalition that Gesundheit! belongs to as a sponsor group, launched the IAACM to support 'creative maladjustment' and social change.^[10]

Adams still leads trips to cheer kids up all over the world. He also teaches at one session of Wavy Gravy's circus camp Camp Winnarainbow.

In media[edit]

The 1998 film Patch Adams was based on Adams' life and views on medicine. Adams has heavily criticized the film, saying it eschewed an accurate representation of his beliefs in favor of commercial viability. He said that out of all aspects of his life and activism, the film portrayed him merely as a funny doctor.^[11] Patch Adams also said of Robin Williams in an interview, 'He made $21 million for four months of pretending to be me, in a very simplistic version, and did not give $10 to my free hospital. Patch Adams, the person, would have, if I had Robin's money, given all $21 million to a free hospital in a country where 80 million cannot get care.'^[12]

However, in another interview, Adams did clarify that he did not dislike Williams, stating 'I think Robin himself is compassion, generosity and funny. I like to think that that's who I am, and so I think he was the only actor I wanted to play me, and I think he did a fabulous job.'^[11]The fugees the score album tracks. Williams also had actively supported St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for several years.^[13]

Upon hearing of the death of Robin Williams, he released this statement.

The terrible news of the passing of Robin Williams reached me here in the Peruvian Amazon late Monday night with tremendous sadness. Surrounded by over 100 friends and clowns on our annual clown trip, we mourn this tragic loss and continue to treasure his comic genius. Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming—he never acted as if he was powerful or famous. Instead, he was always tender and welcoming, willing to help others with a smile or a joke. Robin was a brilliant comedian—there is no doubt. He was a compassionate, caring human being. While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life—Patch Adams–I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew. Also, I would like to point out, Robin would be especially kind toward my children when they would visit the set. Contrary to how many people may view him, he actually seemed to me to be an introvert. When he invited me and my family into his home, he valued peace and quiet, a chance to breathe—a chance to get away from the fame that his talent has brought him. While early in life, he turned to drug use and alcohol to escape, he replaced the addiction with moments of solitude to help cope with the stress that fame brought. This world is not kind to people who become famous, and the fame he had garnered was a nightmare. While saddened, we are left with the consequences of his death. I'm enormously grateful for his wonderful performance of my early life, which has allowed the Gesundheit Institute to continue and expand our work. We extend our blessings to his family and friends in this moment of sadness. Thank you for all you've given this world Robin, thank you my friend.^[14]

The 2003 Bollywood film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.^[15] was inspired by the movie and brought Adams's methods to the forefront in India and Pakistan where conventional methods were predominant. Serial actor actress salary.

As a speaker, Adams travels around the globe lecturing about his medicine methods.^[16]

Publications[edit]

• Adams, Patch; Maureen Mylander (1998). Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy. Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press. ISBN978-0-89281-781-8.
• Adams, Patch (1998). House calls. Cartoons by Jerry Van Amerongen. San Francisco: Robert D. Reed Publishers. ISBN978-1-885003-18-8.

Bibliography[edit]

• Adams, Patch; Maureen Mylander (1998). Gesundheit! [sound recording]. Los Angeles: NewStar Media. ISBN978-0-7871-1828-0. Retrieved December 16, 2008. 4 sound cassettes (ca. 6 hr.) : digitally mastered, Dolby processed.
• Adams, Patch (1998). House calls. cartoons by Jerry Van Amerongen. San Francisco: Robert D. Reed Publishers. ISBN978-1-885003-18-8. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
• Bourque, Judith (1999). The real Patch Adams (videorecording) / a film by Judith Bourque. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films. ISBN978-1-56029-811-3. Retrieved December 16, 2008. 1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
• John Graham for the Giraffe Heroes Program (1999). It's up to us. foreword by Patch Adams. Langley, Washington: Giraffe Project. ISBN978-1-893805-00-2. Retrieved December 16, 2008.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abc'Doctor in a Clown Suit Battles Ills of His Profession'. New York Times. December 15, 1998.
2. ^'Kenneth-A-Graybeal-Bellevue - User Trees - Genealogy.com'.
3. ^'The Free Lance-Star - Google News Archive Search'.
4. ^Interview with Patch Adams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgKvGNsDZv4
5. ^'Alumni News Wakefield High School'(PDF). Fall 2008. p. 5. Retrieved September 12, 2009.
6. ^http://patchadams.org/boardArchived September 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
7. ^'G! { Links }'. Archived from the original on December 10, 2006. Retrieved December 16, 2008. * Ithaca Health Fund * Member-owned Non-profit Mutual Health Security * www.ithacahealth.org
8. ^Marsh, Jason (Spring 2008). 'Playing Doctor: An interview with Patch Adams'. Greater Good Magazine. Berkeley, California: Greater Good Science Center. IV (4). Archived from the original on June 17, 2008. Retrieved December 16, 2008. Adams has been raising money for the hospital for nearly three decades. In the meantime, he continues to lecture and lead workshops, often urging medical students to develop an ethic of care built on forming compassionate connections with their patients. His prescription for this kind of care relies on humor and play, which he sees as essential to physical and emotional health
9. ^'The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Recipients List'. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2009.
10. ^'MindFreedom International launches IAACM'. Retrieved July 17, 2009.
11. ^ ^ab'Real Patch Adams – Movie True Story'. Chasingthefrog.com. January 2, 2012.
12. ^Riccardi, Katia. 'Il sorriso serio di Patch Adams 'Non chiamatela clownterapia'. la Repubblica May 4, 2010
13. ^'Get Involved with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital'.
14. ^Adams, Patch (August 12, 2014). 'Patch Adams: 'Thank You for All You've Given This World Robin, Thank You My Friend''. Time.
15. ^Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
16. ^'Patch Adams - Book for Speaking, Events and Appearances'. November 11, 2015.

External links[edit]

• Patch Adams on IMDb

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Patch Adams (1998) is a Very Loosely Based on a True Story film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Robin Williams as Hunter 'Patch' Adams, a medical student who wants to treat people, not just diseases. To do this, he bucks authority, dresses up as a clown, and acts silly and (on occasion) unprofessionally. Also features Philip Seymour Hoffman in a smaller role as Patch's roommate.

The movie centres largely around Adams's clashing with the old guard of medicine over how to treat patients, specifically their cold and detached bedside manner. Patch argues they need to be more involved with the person and not treat them as another statistic, whilst his superiors point out that getting emotionally involved helps neither doctor nor patient.

Notably the film received a fair bit of criticism from the real Dr. Adams, among many, over the film's representation of his views and philosophies. He believed it simplified all his work into 'laughter is the best medicine.' Furthermore it fabricates entire events, such as making his best friend into a womanto create a love interest, and having Patch commit several felonies which, naturally, his real life counterpart never did. To make matters worse, the money promised to Adams out of the film's profits by the studio were never paid to him—this massively delayed construction of the hospital he wished to build.

This film contains examples of:

• Age Lift: While the real Hunter Adams went to medical school at the usual age, in the film he doesn't start until much later in his life.
• Alone with the Psycho:
  • In the beginning of the film, Patch is forced to room with a man who goes apeshit on a regular basis in reaction to imaginary squirrels on the ground. Patch is, to say the least, uncomfortable with the arrangement, but helping his roommate 'fight off' the squirrels long enough to reach the restroom inspires him to devote his life to helping people.
  • Carin's visit to Larry Silver's house. It doesn't end well for either of them.
• Award-Bait Song: 'Where My Heart Will Take Me' (aka 'Faith of the Heart') by Rod Stewart, which infamously became the Real Song Theme Tune of Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Black and White Morality: The villain seems to have no motivation other than to enforce cruel traditions, while the charming rebel is always portrayed in good light.

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• Broken Aesop: The movie makes the cases that doctors should care for their patients emotionally as well as physically, but midway through the movie getting too close to a patient causes Carin to be killed.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Patch does numerous 'funny' things at the hospital, annoying Dean Walcott, but Patch's grades are among the highest in the class. Which is even stranger considering that he never studies or is shown on-camera utilizing medical knowledge.
• Character Title: Dr. Hunter 'Patch' Adams.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Patch, because certainly a doctor that dresses like a clown is a weirdo.
• Comedy as a Weapon: Patch believes in helping patients through humour and laughter.

• Dean Bitterman: Dean Walcott twice attempts to have Patch dismissed from the school despite his high grades, believing his methods demean the doctor-patient relationship and undermine the dignity of the medical profession.
• Driven to Suicide: Patch's attempted suicide is what kickstarts the story. He nearly attempts it again later on.
• Dr. Jerk: Every single one of the doctors, except Patch Adams, is cold and refers to patients by their room number or disease and even in one scene discuss amputating a patient's leg in a very casual way while the poor patient is lying right next to them.
• Dude, Not Funny!: That stunt Patch pulls to the visiting gynecologists where he places a pair of giant inflatable legs by the college's door so the entrance resembles a giant vagina comes off as not funny, just Sick and Wrong to them.
• Fan Disservice: Patch moons the audience at his graduation.
• Gender Flip: The person Carin is based on was a man in real life.
• Idiot Ball: Carin answers the phone and hears an obviously insane man who wants 'somebody to talk to.' So naturally, she goes to his house alone. It doesn't go well.
• Informed Attribute: Patch's medical knowledge. The audience never sees him study or actually tend to patients, but is just told his grades are among the highest in his class, and when challenged by his roommate to explain how that is when he doesn't study as much as everyone else, Patch just gives him a 'The Reason You Suck' Speech instead. This was one of the criticisms levied by the real Adams.
• Jerkass: Patch is this in the eyes of the Dean and initially to Carin. Some of his antics, such as the gynecologist setup, could be construed more as this than the opposite intention of being humorous.

• Koan: 'If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution!'
• Lampshade Hanging: Patch's Informed Attribute about his medical knowledge is pointed out by his roommate, who says 'I know what you study, or should I say don't study.'
• The Lancer: Patch's friend and fellow student Truman buys in to his ideas and becomes his sidekick at his psuedo-clinic ranch.
• Murder-Suicide: After getting Carin to come to his house alone, Larry Silver shoots her and then turns the gun on himself.

• Rape as Backstory: Carin was apparently molested as a child.
• Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!: After Carin's death, Patch returns to the cliff overlooking his land, rails at God's apparent apathy towards human suffering and lack of compassion for each other, and considers jumping off the edge before spotting a butterfly, recalling Carin's story about how caterpillars get a second chance.
• Stuffed into the Fridge: Carin was Patch's love interest, and then is killed in a way that serves to pile angst onto Patch and make him question his decisions.
• Straw Feminist: Carin is obviously insecure about being a woman in a male-dominated profession, and refuses Patch's (platonic!) advances out of fear of showing weakness, and contempt for his carefree attitude.
• Strawman Political: The social issue Patch is facing was not a revolutionary idea (the term 'bedside manner' long predates him entering medical school), but almost all of the people opposing him act as though being apathetic Dr Jerks is the supreme goal of medicine.
• Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Lots of changes were made. Most notably, the romantic love interest Carin was really a male friend of Patch Adams who was killed under similar circumstances, though earlier than the film depicts.