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
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.
hurt jobs caring
I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.
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.
giving grows contact
The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
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!
love-you knowing happy-love
I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where
pain laughter cancer
Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. 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!