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Gesundheit!
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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
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Author_Patch Adams
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FAMILY
FILM
FREE HOSPITAL
GARETH BRANWYN
GARTH
HEALING
HEALTH
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
HUMAN CONEXION WITH PATIENTS
HUMOR AND HEALING
IMAGINATION
INSTITUTE
JOY
KATHY BLOMQUIST
MEDICAL PRACTICE
MEDICAL SYSTEM
NATURE
OPRAH WINFREY
PHYSICIAN SERVICE
PLAY AS A PART OF HEALING
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
PRESCRIPTION
REBUILDING SELF
ROBIN WILLIAMS
SILLY HOSPITAL
SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY
SOCIETY
TRANSFOMR DMEDICAL PRACTICE
TREAT A PERSON
Product details
- ISBN 9780892817818
- Weight: 417g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine
. Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system
. Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams
Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine.
All author royalties are used to fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in West Virginia.
Adams' positive vision and plan for the future is an inspiration for those concerned with the inaccessibility of affordable, quality health care.
Today's high-tech medicine has become too costly, impersonal, and grim. In his frequent lectures to colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools, and conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a loving, creative, humorous human exchange--not a business transaction.
Patch Adams, M.D., is a social revolutionary and one-man show who believes in "horse and buggy" medicine and never charges his patients a cent! In 1971, the author and a few of his colleagues founded the Gesundheit institute in Northern Virginia. During the next twelve years, they operated a home-based family medical practice and managed to treat more than 15,000 people without payment, malpractice insurance, or formal facilities. Patch Adams continues on his life mission to achieve the goal of building a fully functioning, free health care center.
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