U.S.NationalityAmericanEducation,Alma materHome townSpouse(s)Linda Edquist (1975–98; divorced) Susan Parenti (m. 2010)ChildrenAtomic Zagnut AdamsLars Zig Edquist AdamsParent(s)Robert Loughridge AdamsAnna Campbell AdamsRelativesRobert Loughridge 'Wildman' Adams, Jr. (brother)Hunter Doherty ' Patch' Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American,. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971.

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Each year he organizes volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people.Adams is currently based in,. In collaboration with the institute, he promotes an alternative health care model not funded. Key peopleChair, Cari Brackett, Pharm.DJohn T. Glick, MDSusan R.

Parenti, DMAWebsiteSoon 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, is planned on 316 acres (128 ha) in,. Its goal is to integrate a traditional hospital with, with the organization developing educational programs in sustainable targeted to medical students and the general public.Since the 1990s Adams has supported the (IHA), founded as the Ithaca Health Fund (IHF). In January 2006 IHA launched theIthaca Free Clinic, bringing to life key aspects of Adams' vision.

Adams has also given strong praise to, 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. 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, to anyone who wants it.Adams was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award on January 29, 1997.In 2008, Adams agreed to become honorary chair of the 'International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment' or IAACM., a nonprofit coalition that Gesundheit!

Belongs to as a sponsor group, launched the IAACM to support 'creative maladjustment' and social change.Adams still leads trips to cheer kids up all over the world. He also teaches at one session of circus camp.In media. Patch Adams with in Award Ceremony of the Danielle Prize Healing with a Heart, April 2017The 1998 film was based on Adams' life and his 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.

Patch Adams also said of 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.' However, in another interview, Adams did clarify that he did not dislike Williams saying, 'I think Robin himself is compassion, generous 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.' Williams also had actively supported for several years.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.

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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.The 2003 film was inspired by the movie and brought Adams's methods to the forefront in and where conventional methods were predominant.As a speaker, Adams travels around the globe lecturing about his medicine methods. Publications.

Adams, Patch; Maureen Mylander (1998).: Healing Arts Press. Adams, Patch (1998). San Francisco: Robert D. Reed Publishers. Patch Adams wrote the foreword for the book by (2012), Pet Goats & Pap Smears: 101 Medical Adventures to Open Your Heart & Mind.Bibliography. Adams, Patch; Maureen Mylander (1998). Los Angeles: NewStar Media.

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Retrieved December 16, 2008. 4 sound cassettes (ca.

6 hr.): digitally mastered, Dolby processed. Adams, Patch (1998). San Francisco: Robert D. Reed Publishers. Retrieved December 16, 2008.

Bourque, Judith (1999).: Bullfrog Films. Retrieved December 16, 2008. 1 videocassette (53 min.): sd., col.; 1/2 in. John Graham for the Giraffe Heroes Program (1999). Foreword by Patch Adams.: Giraffe Project. Retrieved December 16, 2008.See also.

New York Times. December 15, 1998. Interview with Patch Adams.

(PDF). Retrieved September 12, 2009. September 11, 2013, at the. Archived from on December 10, 2006. Retrieved December 16, 2008. Ithaca Health Fund.

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Member-owned Non-profit Mutual Health Security. www.ithacahealth.org. Marsh, Jason (Spring 2008).

Greater Good Magazine.:. Archived from 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. Archived from on February 14, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2009.

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Patch Here.Thank you for taking the time to visit this website and for your curiosity concerning my work. You may have heard of me through the film about my life in medical school, Patch Adams, and I can confirm that I am actually a real person. I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people. Please read my short autobiography below to learn a little more and if it’s interesting, consider purchasing my book, Gesundheit! I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people. Growing UpMy older brother and I were World War II babies.

Dads career was in the army and he fought all of World War II and Korea. We grew up on army bases, outside the US during peacetime and stateside during wartime. Our last seven years with him were in Germany where he died in 1961.

He was so damaged by his war experiences that he couldn’t connect with me. I had no father. My mother was remarkable. She loved us.

She was a schoolteacher and fed me all of my interests, giving me self-esteem and making me a creative, loving man who cared for people.After my father´s death we moved back to Virginia and I was placed in an all white school where I immediately was confronted with the ugliness of segregation. I got in trouble with my classmates and was beaten up for standing up to the racism that surrounded me. I was a strange, nerdy kid.

In my late teens I was hospitalized three times because I didn’t want to live in a world of so much violence and injustice. Everything changed in the last hospitalization when I decided that instead of taking my life, I would make a (love) revolution. At 18, I found my desire to serve humanity through medicine and made the commitment to myself to never have another bad day. I decided to be happy. I left the hospital on fire and pursued a couple interests while working for my medical degree. BeginsFirst, I wanted to go out and engage the world as this happy soul.

I started clowning in public and have done it daily since. Second, I set out to quench my thirst for knowledge by studying everything I could get my hands on. In order to become an instrument for peace, justice and care I read thousands of books. I needed to understand so I could create solutions.

I became interested in whole systems thinking, looking for ways to integrate it with the hospital-community concepts that emerged in medical school. In my imagination I envisioned a communal eco-village hospital that would address every problem of the way healthcare was delivered in one model. I wrote it up in a paper in March, 1971 and this was the basis of what became theI met my wife, Linda, in my last year of medical school (Medical College of Virginia, class of 1971). She was instrumental in the early years of the hospital´s functioning and I cannot imagine it without her.

Together we had two sons, Atomic and Lars.With an amazing group of friends we created, a pilot hospital model, which we operated for twelve years out of our communal home. We were always open for any kind of problem. Our policy was: 1) no charge 2) no health insurance reimbursement 3) no malpractice insurance 4) 3 to 4 hour initial interview with the patient 5) home as hospital 6) integration of all the healing arts 7) integration of medicine with performance arts, arts and crafts, nature, agriculture, education, recreation and social service 8) the health of the staff is as important as the health of the patient.We did this for 12 years and saw thousands of patients. The experience was enchanting.

Unfortunately we were so radical that we couldn’t find funding. The staff itself paid to practice. In 1984, we realized that we couldn’t continue operating this way. We needed a facility. In this context we decided to go public and I quickly became busy as a speaker.

Global OutreachIn the last 28 years, I´ve created 50 presentations and performed them in 70 countries. I´ve spoken at 90 medical schools in the US and many more around the world. Over the course of the last two decades I´ve been on the road for 200-300 days of the year.In 1985, I took a group of people on a clown trip to what was then the Soviet Union. Equipped with colorful clothing and compassion we visited hospitals, orphanages, homes for the elderly as well as just clowning on the street.

Since then, these trips have been an integral part of. Apart from returning to Russia every year there have been clown trips to all corners of the world, including visits to war zones, refugee camps and natural disaster sites.

We´ve also built clinics and a school at some of the places we´ve visited. I go on six or seven of these trips yearly. They are the sweetest healing work I get to do while I wait for the hospital. I go on six or seven of these trips yearly. They are the sweetest healing work I get to do while I wait for the hospital.After separating from my wife in 1997, I submerged myself in working to get our hospital built. Several years later the movie about my life, “Patch Adams”, was released.

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I thought it would build our hospital but that hasn´t been the case. It did, however, bring a great deal more visibility to our project and opened many wonderful doors to new directions for Gesundheit to pursue.

20 years ago I became a student of the and over time I´ve discovered a passion for teaching. Breaking GroundIn the summer of 2011 we started construction of our first big building, a in West Virginia. This will allow us to see patients once again as well as providing a space to teach health care system design. In the excitement for this moment, I chose to move to Urbana, Illinois to live with my beloved Susan, who has been and continues to be a precise mentor to me. In recent years I’ve had the opportunity to work together with my sons and brother, Wildman, and life doesn’t get any better than that.

All this in hopeful preparation for the dream of a crazy free hospital. My life has been a dance with humanity. Friends are my passion.