Gesundheit hospital foundation in hillsboro, west virginia. The gesundheit institute is a 501c3 nonprofit healthcare organization. Each year he organizes volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people adams is currently based in urbana, illinois. In the gesundheit institute, everyone will be treated with dignity. Patch adams compares the gesundheit institute to current.
Hunter doherty patch adams born may 28, 1945 is an american physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. We offer caring and healing humanitarian clowning, global outreach, teaching and lecturing teaching center, educational curriculum, patch adams lecturing. The gesundheit institute is a 501c3 nonprofit healthcare organization whose mission. Often when a person sneezes, people say gesundheit. Similarly, the message of the campaign was, keep yourself and those around you in good health by getting the flu shot and practicing proper germ control etiquette. Patch explains it better in the following talk at the mayo clinic ted talk. Heres what the real patch adams has been up to treehugger. While in medical school, i vowed that i would never be a rude, arrogant doctor. Patch adams and the gesundheit institute have worked on a model of health care that puts care at the center of health. Patch adams is best known for his work as a medical doctor and a clown, but he is.
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