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
gratitude bad-day sea
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
mean excellence poverty
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
disease needs patient
We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,
spiritual mean action
For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
pie america giving
The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
thinking society-today our-society
I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.
radical commit
The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.
men years humanity
Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.
doctors quality purpose
The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.
thinking mind together
We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship.
growing-up fun kids
The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
skills environment areas
I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.
justice people special
Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
fun creativity passion
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.