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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Patch Adams
		Adams is currently based Arlington, Virginia, where he promotes alternative health care in collaboration with the institute.
		Among the causes championed by Adams, since 1992, is that of MindFreedom International, which unites 100 advocacy groups united in efforts to win campaigns for human rights of people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities.
		Adams has taken a leading role on behalf of the coalition in its campaign to thwart President George W. Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Patch_Adams (403 words)

	MIM Movie Review
		Patch Adams: Individualism confuses message that medicine should serve the people review by MC234 Patch Adams is the most recent Robin Williams movie about a suicidal man who learns that he wants to help people by being a doctor.
		Patch is horrified to learn on his first day of medical school that he will not even get to see a patient until the 3rd year of school.
		Patch Adams is a not good doctor because he uses ITAL humor END (as the film implies), but because he tries to connect with his patients and concretely apply his technical training.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/movies/review.php?f=long/patch.txt (627 words)

	Patch Adams
		Patch also invokes the opening words of Dante's Inferno when he speaks of having lost the right path in the middle of his life's journey - the right path, which he was to find eventually "in the most unlikely place," in a psychiatric ward.
		When Patch encounters a frantic woman who is not allowed to see her dying daughter (the victim of a drunk driver who has already taken her son and husband), because she hasn't filled out certain forms yet, he is ready to act.
		Patch sympathizes with her and wants to know who or what it was that had hurt her in the past.
	www.stevencscheer.com /patchadams.htm (3088 words)

	Patch Adams: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Patch adams (1998)is a film directed by tom shadyac and based on the life of hunter adams and the book: gesundheit: good health is laughing matter by...
		Patch Adams graduated as a medical doctor[For more info, click on this link] in 1971, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Patch Adams is also a social activist, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/patch_adams.htm (1088 words)

	Patch Adams personal appearances,medical speakers, patch adams
		Patch Adams, M.D., is a nationally known, popular speaker on wellness, laughter, humor and life as well as on the subjects of health care and health care systems.
		Patch Adams is founder and director of the Gesundheit Institute, a free health facility in operation for fifteen years.
		Patch Adams was also the subject of a PBS Documentary titled A Different Drummer.
	www.barberusa.com /medical/adams_patch.html (342 words)

	Patch Adams
		The movie "Patch Adams" is based upon the book, "Gesundheit: Good Heath Is a Laughing Matter," which is about the life of an actual doctor named Hunter "Patch" Adams.
		Patch's fellow medical student and girlfriend, Carin, is shot and killed by a psychiatric patient she is helping, and her patient then commits suicide.
		Presumably this is a factual incident that occurred in the life of the real Hunter "Patch" Adams, M.D. as he attended medical school at the University of Virginia during the late '60s and early '70s.
	www.after-death.com /articles/patchadams.htm (340 words)

	PATCH ADAMS
		Patch's nemesis, played by Bob Gunton ("Glory"), is appropriately menacing in a dramatic sense, but unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view) never gets to show a human side behind his dehumanizing (for the good of medicine) efforts.
		Patch comically address a meat packers convention with some innuendo by saying "In New Zealand they found a whole new use for sheep" (someone asks, "What's that?") and Patch replies, "Wool!" He also says "We're all gonna be the best damn packers there are...I'm proud of my meat.
		For a tour of some visiting gynecologists, we see that Patch has erected a set of tremendously oversized women's legs in examination stirrups connected to the outside of a building, with the legs spread and leading back to a door where the imaginary woman's vagina would be (but no genital related items are present).
	www.screenit.com /movies/1998/patch_adams.html (1948 words)

	Patch Adams
		This feel-good movie deserves to be the big hit that it is. Robin Williams plays Patch Adams as a non-conformist medical student on staff in a hospital who dares to challenge the system to bring humour and hope to his patients - and he wins (gets away with it).
		Patch Adams (the real one) is hopeful that the needed funds to complete and run the Gesundheit Institute will be forthcoming once people see the movie.
		It was on this tour that we saw, and really knew for the first time Patch’s belief that "Giving is the highest drug in the world." Not only in what Patch had to say, but in his own gratitude for the chance to speak in seminars and clown in health care facilities.
	www.chy.com.au /patch.htm (1297 words)

	AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of Patch Adams
		Patch entered medical school at a more advanced age than most students, though perhaps in reality he wasn’t quite as old at the time as his onscreen alter ego (Robin Williams).
		Patch is accepted into medical school, where his grades are excellent, despite behavior that his professors deem eccentric at best, disruptive at worst.
		‘Patch Adams’ is at times a bit too conscious of trying to be a crowd-pleaser, but on the whole, it’s both humane and entertaining.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/patchadams.shtml (494 words)

	Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency - Patch Adams - Robin Williams, Daniel London, Peter Coyote
		Adams checks himself out of the place, aiming to go to medical school himself, to be a different sort of doctor.
		But, as Adams, now known as "Patch" (thanks to a patient in the institution who saw Adams' gifts as a listener) begins to have a positive effect on the patients he deals with, his brand of care begins to catch on.
		Patch has a vision of a clinic where patients can come to get the help they need without fear of bills and insurance woes.
	www.stairwell.com /doc/exam/patch.html (1588 words)

	Patch Adams interview: Living Your Leadership Vision With Authenticity and Purpose
		Patch views exceptional leadership as serving society through making connections with others, accepting complexity in relationships and in healing, and using laughter and heart to stop violence and conflict.
		Patch is a strong example of a leader with compassion, heart, and a willingness to stand up for and practice what truly lives within each and every one of us - the ability to serve humanity through sincere care and generosity with authenticity and purpose.
		Patch Adams has dedicated his life to the belief that "healing should be a loving human interchange, not a business transaction." Gesundheit is working to build a 40 bed hospital/healing center in rural West Virginia which integrates traditional medicine with complimentary therapies in the context of a joyful community.
	www.bestpracticeboard.com /patch_adams.htm (4207 words)

	PATCH ADAMS
		I'm sure the real Patch Adams the film is based on is a funny guy, but come on.
		Williams is incredibly likable and he's great as Patch Adams, a confused, intelligent man who finally discovers that he wants to become a doctor to help heal people.
		Patch finally seems to have his life together when the rug is suddenly pulled out from under him.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsP/f_patch.html (719 words)

	Patch Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hunter "Patch" Adams (born May 28, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia) founded the Gesundheit Institute in 1972.
		Patch Adams was graduated to Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Virginia, Health Sciences Division of Virginia Commonwealth University in 1971, convinced of the powerful connection between environment and wellness.
		Along with his medical advocacy, Adams has been known for his political activism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patch_Adams (467 words)

	CNN - Real Patch Adams says jokes aid practical medicine - January 11, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Adams, the doctor who inspired the Robin Williams movie now in theaters, says humility and humor break the ice between healer and patient -- and that helps good medicine work better.
		Some ask whether Adams' failure to raise the money needed for his hospital is because few people can take him seriously.
		But Adams says there is nothing in medical journals showing you have to stay serious to get well, and he contends the opposite is true.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/9901/11/patch.adams (448 words)

	"Patch Adams" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Patch's hunger to help is stirred when he realizes that so many people needing health care are refused because of the bureaucracy involved with insurance and hospital procedures.
		Patch was a man who cared for people, looking past their disabilities, and he made a major difference in their lives.
		In "Patch Adams" the (based on) true story of a maverick medical student with a vision he combines both the character from "Good Morning Vietnam" and the Malcom Sayer character from "Awakenings".
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-patchadams.html (2174 words)

	Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Patch Adams, Speaker On: Health, Health / Personal, Medical / Dental, Health / ...
		Patch Adams, M.D., is a nationally known speaker on wellness, laughter, humor, and life as well as on the subjects of healthcare and healthcare systems.
		Adams believes that "the most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy." Dr. Adams is founder and director of the Gesundheit Institute, a free health facility in operation for 15 years.
		Dr. Adams, also known as Patch, adds to his training as a physician his experience as a street clown.
	www.speaking.com /speakers/patchadams.html (367 words)

	Review: Patch Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		In Patch Adams, there are moments of supposed emotional warmth as Patch connects with dying patients, towering sadness as he recites poetry over the coffin of a lost friend, and triumph as he overcomes the forces aligned against him.
		Patch Adams is slated for a Christmas Day release, presumably because Universal Pictures believes audiences are more susceptible to this kind of half-baked storytelling during the season of good will.
		Patch Adams is the kind of film that will work for an audience that's just interested in having an emotional experience (with a happy ending) without caring how obviously or clumsily they are manipulated.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/patch.html (852 words)

	CNN - Review: Sick humor in 'Patch Adams' - January 4, 1999
		The extremely difficult-to-miss message of "Patch Adams" (and it's the same message you get in all of Williams' most successful comedies) is that peace and love would soon reign supreme if everybody would just improvise 100 miles a minute and talk in funny voices when confronted with emotionally complex situations.
		"Patch Adams" is absolutely awful, and it made 25 million bucks this past weekend.
		Aside from a ridiculous, tear-jerking plot twist that I won't type for fear of debasing my fingertips, the other characters are just there to have their floundering spirits lifted by Patch, or to angrily stand in his way while he tries to soak the vicinity with his unbridled wonderfulness.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9901/04/review.patch.adams (1009 words)

	Patch Adams and the Gesundheit! Institute
		Hunter "Patch" Adams, a former mental health patient, decided to get his own M.D. In the process, he developed a new approach to medicine that went around conventional procedures, but was very effective; patients loved it.
		Adams method is intended to benefit health professionals as well as patients and their families.
		With the attention his ideas are getting since the release of Patch Adams, a film based on his life which starred Robin Williams, he and his friends may well get the help they need to realize their dream.
	www.dharma-haven.org /five-havens/patch-adams.htm (1540 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - Patch Adams
		The moment of truth in Tom Shadyac's "Patch Adams," the moment that will test audience willingness to suspend disbelief, comes at about the midpoint of the movie when a man writhing in agony with pancreatic cancer is made to laugh by a doctor acting like a clown.
		In his book, the real Patch Adams told how his experiences as a mental patient led him to the therapeutic benefits of laughter, how his application of humor to treatment got him in trouble with medical authorities, and how he began creating his free clinic, the Gesundheit Institute, where illness is combated with humanism.
		"Patch Adams" is built on the assumption that administrators are fed ice water intravenously, and that medical students smile at the risk of lowering their grade-point average.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-movie981225-7,2,1443982.story (737 words)

	patch adams
		Adams is one of several doctors who run the Gesundheit Institute, a holistic clinic in West Virginia.
		Inspired to become a doctor while institutionalized for depression as a teenager, Adams told the crowd simply but emphatically, "I love people." As a result of his experience as a patient, he was a pioneer in the idea of treating the patient instead of the disease.
		Adams challenged the students to move beyond the Superdance by spending a week with a child who has cystic fibrosis or any other suffering individual.
	www.catholicherald.com /articles/00articles/patch.htm (721 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Gesundheit!: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		I have learned from Patch the courage it takes to be different and to reveal your wounds: behind his clownlike persona lies a great deal of wisdom, and it often falls to the court jester to speak the truth that those in power need to hear.
		Patch is saying we must find our own gesundheit, our own way of having fun, being creative but caring for the world we live in.
		Patch is so true when he says we need more postive images in the media that enhance postive thinking, respect, love and creativity for ourselves and those we interact with.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/089281781X (1029 words)

	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: Reader Reviews - Patch Adams
		I have just seen "Patch Adams" the latest movie from Robin Williams opens as a suicidal Patch(Williams) checks into a mental hospital and is cured, not by the doctors, but by the patients, he then checks out and becomes a medical student.
		If I was Patch Adams, I'd be furious at the jerks responsible for this monstrosity; for trivializing him, for perverting his life into a two-dimensional box-office earner.
		Patch Adams may very well be the worst film I have ever seen, the total number of films that I have seen is around 500 according to the Movie Critic website.
	www.bigscreen.com /ReaderReview.php?movie=PatchAdams (3143 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Patch Adams [1999]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Patch Adams raises two schools of thought: there are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping others--a man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task.
		Patch Adams follows a depressed lonely guy who checks into a mental institute and finally realises his purpose in life, to help people.
		Patch Adams is a beautiful film, well made, well written and all the actors perform to perfection especially Robin Williams who will make his way into your heart.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CZMR (1558 words)

	The Real Patch Adams \| Bullfrog Films
		Patch is both a medical doctor and a clown...but he is also a social activist who has devoted 30 years to changing America's healthcare system, a system which he describes as expensive and elitist.
		Patch and his colleagues practiced medicine together that way for 12 years in what he calls their "pilot project." They saw 15,000 patients.
		Through an in-depth interview with Patch you will hear his story...about the journey from suicidal despair in his youth to making the decision to devote his life to the study of what makes people happy.
	www.bullfrogfilms.com /catalog/patch.html (739 words)

	The My Hero Project - Dr. Patch Adams
		Adams became very close to his uncle and his uncle became a second father to him.
		Patch could be considered the most useful clown of the century.
		Patch Adams is an incredible man, and one that I truly admire.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=p_adams (2327 words)

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