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Biography DR Ingles
Biography DR Ingles
Patch Adams
Hunter Doherty Adams, more known as the Dr. Patch Adams, was born on May
28th, 1945 in Washington D.C, USA, popularly known for being the doctor of the
Nevertheless, Dr. Patch Adams's history has not been easy. His father was an
official of the army of the United States who fought in Korea, but being in Germany
he found the death, and due to this tragic event, already teen Patch and his
mother returned to The United States, it was in this moment of his life that realized
the great social injustice that existed in his natal country, turning it then into white
suicidal tendency, being hospitalized by at least three times in one year for
wanting to end with his life. In the year 1963 his mother decides to hospitalize it
in a psychiatric hospital, it was there where he realized his first act of help, since
there was sharing piece with Rudy, a teenager who was suffering from
against the creatures that were tormenting to Rudy, achieving that his friend was
stopping being afraid. To the time, Patch goes away of the hospital, to register in
Virginia's medical college, and in the year 1971 already it had his doctor's title of
medicine.
since it was dreaming of a friendly and happy place where the persons were not
afraid to his disease and treat it, and where his health was not separating them
from their families, as consequence of this idea, Patch and a few friends managed
to found Gesundheit! Institute, which worked as free hospital for 12 years. During
this process he knew Linda Edquist, fellow student, whom he married in the year
1975 and they had two children, Atomic Zagnut y Largs Zig, lamentably the
marriage did not prosper many years more since they separated in the year 1998.
His love for this profession does not limit itself in one single place, but this doctor
volunteers, to travelling for the world, in order to take happiness, hope and
and cheerful clowns, also in company of music, visual arts, literature, dance and
plays. It is the medical only one that has been capable of integrating the laugh to
the modern medicine since this one has ends medical and therapeutic. Between
the activities that are realized: delivery of material (as paintbrushes, pencils,
notebooks and chalk) in order that the children could draw, magic carpet where
histories, stories and songs are told, workshops on the love and sexuality to
teenagers, and an alone workshop for women in order that they could share their
experiences.
Also he has formed a strategic alliance with different institutions to realize a plan
of social help inside some countries, as Peru. It devotes itself to realize also
with their patients in congresses and visit with many frequency hospitals of the
whole world where the principal ingredient is the humor and the game, since he
thinks that they are essential elements for the emotional and physical health.
During his professional life has achieved successful recognitions due to the work
vulnerable populations about the world. Also his life and the book Gesundheit
had an adjustment to the cinema, in the year 1998 across the movie called Patch
Adams, directed by Tom Shadyac and interpreted by the already deceased Robin
Williams, was and it continues being a box-office success. Has been creator of
about six works, where he relates parts from his life, speech on the institute
This 72 year-old famous doctor, insists that the friendship and the love are the
best medicine, and that the laugh is just a way of facilitating a better health
condition. The happy doctor is characterized by his long white hair, his great
humor, affirming that his maximum ambition is to create " happy hospitals " in the
whole world.
The dream of a happy hospital was founded by the doctor Patch Adams and
friends in the year 1971, the Institute called Gesundheit! (Health! In english),
medical center created in a rural zone of West Virginia. This hospital is based on
the friendship, where the staff lives in the installation with his family in a collective
atmosphere would improve the treatment and would relieve the suffering. This
institute in without ends of profit, since from 2007 they began a campaign of