film and reality patch adams' 'gesundheit' hospital

Rifleman, a family practice doctor with the Midtown Community Health Center in Ogden. Each year, the president of the society gets to choose the theme of the conference. This has been hard on me, too.”Īdams was in town to speak at the 73rd annual Ogden Surgical-Medical Society conference. “It’s what I needed to cheer me up as a caregiver to my husband. “I loved it,” she said of Adams’ bedside visit. Hunter Adams, was a speaker at the conference and encouraged health care professionals to use joy and humor as a part of the treatment process. In this Wednesday, May 16, 2018, photo, Patch Adams enters Ogden Regional Medical Center with a group of doctors from the Ogden Surgical Medical Society Conference, in Ogden, Utah. It’s a new day, move on.”Ĭall’s wife, Nancy, says she needed the doctor’s medicine as much as her husband. “If you’re feeling bad, remember that happened in past. “He has a way of healing through laughter,” Call said. He’s written two books and leads a half-dozen clown trips each year, bringing humor and health care to poor and war-torn regions of the world.Īdams’ website says the doctor collects gag gifts and has “three singing butts.”

He’s devoted the better part of three decades to trying to change America’s health care system - a system he describes as “expensive and elitist.”Īdams founded - and funded - The Gesundheit! Institute, a nonprofit organization that works toward building and sustaining the first free hospital in the United States. The 72-year-old describes himself as a medical doctor, clown and social activist. Adams believes that laughter, joy and creativity are integral to the healing process.

Adams, who goes by the nickname Patch Adams, was featured in the 1998 film by the same name, in which Robin Williams played the zany medico.

Film and reality patch adams' 'gesundheit' hospital