Patch is both a medical doctor and a clown, but he is also a social activist who has devoted 30 years to changing americas healthcare system. Healh risks of early swimming pool attendance article in international journal of hygiene and environmental health 214. Patch adams is best known for his work as a medical doctor and a clown, but he is also a social activist who has devoted over 40 years of his life to changing. As a hospital buildinga hospital with wallswe are fundraising for a 44 bed community hospital building on our land in rural west virginia. He is presently chief of community mental health with the gesundheit. The hospital, the clown trips, the lectures and correspondences have made me feel that the earth is my commune, and all of us are truly brothers and sisters. Institute, a notforprofit health care organization chartered under the nonprofit corporation act of the district of columbia, is a project in holistic medical care based on the. Carl met patch more than 20 years ago when both were presenters at a national healthcare conference. The gesundheit institute is a 501c3 nonprofit healthcare organization whose mission. Patch adams promovierte 1971 am medical college of virginia. Doctors were rude, arrogant people who belittled everyone around them. Our mission is to reframe and reclaim the concept of hospital. Unsere leistungsstarken server stehen im rechenzentrum interxion.
The gesundheit hospital will embody our activist philosophy. Institute, is a doctor, clown, activist for peace, justice. We offer caring and healing humanitarian clowning, global outreach, teaching and lecturing teaching center, educational curriculum, patch adams lecturing. Each year he organizes volunteers from around the world to travel to. 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. That connection and the resulting friendship turned out to be lifechanging and started him on a path to clowning in public. Research and education, sunshine hospital, pledging. Patch explains it better in the following talk at the mayo clinic ted talk. Patch and his colleagues practiced medicine at the gesundheit institute together in west virginia that way for 12 years in what patch refers to as their pilot project. Patch is both a medical doctor and a clown, but he is also a social activist who has devoted 30 years to changing americas healthcare system, a system that he describes as expensive and elitist. Patch adams and the gesundheit institute have worked on a model of health care that puts care at the center of health. Melbourne, and also houses the australian institute for.