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 * Hunter Campbell "Patch" Adams **

= = =Biography= Hunter Campbell "Patch" Adams was born in Washington , District of Columbia  on 28.05.1945. He is married to Lynda and has two sons, Lars and Zag. He graduated Medical College of Virginia and in 1972 founded the Gesundheit Institute, which ran as a free community hospital for 12 years. Hunter 'Patch' Adams was born into a military family. His family moved constantly because of his father military career and Patch learned to accept differences in people and to quickly make friends. His mother instilled in him a sense of humor and made him want to learn. When Patch started school, he became known as the class clown. He won many science fairs. After winning one of his last science fairs, he went to spend a week with his father. He and his father became very close during this week. A few days later, his father died suddenly of a heart attack.

Soon after, Patch and his family moved to Northern Virginia to live with his uncle and aunt for a few months. Patch became very close to his uncle who was like a second father to him. He started to date his first girlfriend, Donna and in his freshman year in college, she broke up with him and right around the same time, his uncle committed suicide. He dropped out of college and became depressed and obsessed with suicide. He was hospitalized into a mental hospital according to his request. While he was in the hospital, Patch made many different friends. The patients in the hospital changed him and made him realize he wants to heal people with laughter. When he was released from the hospital he applied to medical school. During his studies he visited the hospital patients and made them laugh although his professors did not like his behavior.

He started to make his dream come true, to built the Gesundheit Institute in order to create a place where the patients don't feel they are sick, a place full of happiness and joy. A place where 'normal' doctors are working together, side by side with holistic doctors and clown doctors. They will devote every patient a lot of attention and time. There will be trust and warm relationships between the doctor and the patient. The medical service will be all free, for any person the way he is.

He volunteers all over the world and tries to make people happier. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to Russia as clowns, to bring hope and joy to orphans, patients, and people. In 1998 he also visited Bosnia, one of the Balkan Peninsula countries torn apart by the war that started after the break-up of Yugoslavia. In this year, a movie about Patch Adams was produced. The film was very successful all over the world and helps to spread Patch's idea of being loving and caring for people. People became more aware, more caring and helping. There are some people who took the movie very seriously, left their jobs and became clown doctors.

Patch Adams is an incredible man. He is our hero. He greatly donates to the society he has advanced the holistic medical field and the clown care field. He founded the Gesundheit Institute, which is a medical humanitarians supporting community. Many people follow him. They travel around the world and volunteer, donate to hospitals and change their attitude toward sick people. Thanks to Patch and more who follow his dream, the medical world has improved. Today the hospitals provide much warmer and loving treatment to their patient and a lot of them use the clown care treatment or allow them to come in. Patch brings the smile to the medial world and we admire him for it.

=ID card=

Patch Adams is known as one of the founders of the Clown Care field. His wish is to bring hope and joy to orphans, patients, and people all over the world.
 * Name: ** Hunter Campbell "Patch" Adams ** . **
 * Date of Birth: **28.05.1945.
 * Place of Birth: ** Washington , District of Columbia.
 * Name of Parents: ** Unknown ** . **
 * Key words: ** Washington , District of Columbia, Clown Care, Alternative medicine.

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=Interview=

//Hello Patch Adams, thank you for letting us interviews you. // // We would like to start with a few personal questions://

Yes. I have a beautiful wife name Lynda and two sons, Lars and Zag.
 * 1. Tell us a little about your family. Did you ever get married and have children?**

It is a little complicated. Yes, I thought about suicide because the family and some other things that had happened in a short period of time. First of all, just after my dad and I get closer to each other he suddenly died from a heart attack. It was a shock and very soon after it we moved to Northern Virginia to live with my uncle and aunt. I became very close to my uncle, he was like a second father to me. I also had a girlfriend that I loved a lot – Donna. In the same time, when I was in my freshman year of college Donna broke up with me and my uncle committed suicide. It was a big crisis for me. I felt very lonely and sad. I thought that it will solve all my problems but I was wrong. // Now, let's talk about the great film 'Patch Adams' starring Robin Williams .//
 * 2. Why did you think of suicide? Did it have anything to do with your family?**


 * 3. Did you enjoy working with Robin Williams? Do you think he represent your character realistically? **

I enjoyed working with Robin, he is funny, kind and compassionate and I think he is the only actor I wanted to play me. In the movie Robin represents a person who follows his dream and never gives up. He does'nt care what people do or think, he sticks to his own way. I'd like to think that this is who I am.
 * 4. Did the media's attention from the movie make people be more aware of Clown**
 * Care therapy and the importance of being giving and loving?**

Yes and no. On the one hand – I can tell you that I dreamed the film might help me to raise enough money to build a 40 bed hospital on 310 acres of land in Pocahontas, county, west Virginia. But it hasn't helped. We need more money. On the other hand it had help spread the idea of loving and giving to people. People became more aware, more caring and helping. There are some people who took the movie very seriously, left their jobs and became clown doctors………
 * 5. Have you got any responses from people who heard about your vision and wanted to be a part of it?**

Of course! Every year thousands of doctors tell me they would be willing to leave their work and come work in our hospital. There are also doctors and nurses who want to come work part time. In addition, many medical students ask us to let them come and study clown care and Holistic Medicine. We also receive request from people all over the world who visits our website to take part of the activities we do. // Patch, rumor has it that when you were a kid you had been known as the funniest one, the clown of the class.//

The first time I realized I can help people feel better by using my quality was when I was hospitalized in the mental hospital. I made many different friends and they changed me by giving me a new perspective on life. One of them suffered from loneliness and he was the one who made me realize I wasn’t miserable and lonely, on the contrary, I was loved .In that time I realized how important it is to be giving and loving for each other. When I was in the hospital I also decided I wanted to heal people with laughter.
 * 6. When did you understand that you can use your quality for doing some good and important things such as helping people and make them feel better?**
 * 7. Did you learn or practice how to interact with strangers?**

Well, to make someone who's sick and feel bad to smile isn't so easy as it look … I experimented with friendliness by calling hundreds that wrong numbers, pretending to be sociology student or anything that would help me draw people out. Out in public I engaged strangers in conversation as much as possible. For example, I rode elevators to see how many floors it would take to get the people introduced themselves to each other. In addition, since I was a kid we moved a lot and I learned to make friends at new school and in different cultures. //Patch, You believe in a special way of healing.//

Holistic medicine is a medical care that focuses on the human body's ability to heal itself without using medications. Holistic medicine including biofeedback, faith healing, folk medicine, meditation, yoga and other natural healing methods. Clown care is a program in hospitals and medical centers involving visits from specially trained clown. They are trying to help healing patient with positive power of hope and humor. It is combats stress, reduces pain by releasing endorphins (it is the body's natural painkiller). The clown doctors use techniques as music, magic, balloon sculpting, storytelling and other funny things which help the children deal with hard emotions they may experience in the time they are in the hospital as loneliness, fear or boredom. The effect on the patient is huge. You can't imagine how it's help people and makes them more happy and healthy.
 * 8. Tell us, what are healing health and clown care?**
 * 9. What is the Gesundhiedt Institute hospital?**

The Gesundhiedt institute (which means good health in German) is a free hospital\ healing community based on the vision of how healthcare should be. In this place doctors will work for almost no money and patient wouldn't be billed. There will a relationship of trust between the doctors and the patients. In addition, patients will receive more time from there doctors. The Gesundhiedt institute will be a place which combines traditional hospital with alternative medicine and I hope one day we will raise enough money to complete building this institute.


 * 10. What is your biggest and wildest wish or dream according to the Gesundhiedt Institute Free Hospital?**

Wow, this is a big question… If you ask me about the dream of my life, the one I think about everyday the answer will be to create a place where the patient don't feel they are sick,a place full of happiness and joy. A place where 'normal' doctors are working together, side by side with holistic doctors and clown doctors. They will devote everyone a lot of attention and time. There will be trust and warm relationships between the doctor and the patient. The medical service will be free, for any man the way he is.

//Thank you vary much, We enjoyed interviewing you and we wish you good luck//

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Doctors and Nurses, and every person who cares about the improved medical world. I believe the doctor duty is not just to postpone the death but to improve the quality of life.

We stand before a great breakthrough which can change the interpersonal relations in the medical treatment. Today, after a long hard way in fund raising and thanks to many amazing people we are opening the __Gesundheit Institute free hospital.__

I have seen many professional Doctors who worked in great hospitals where they cared only for the patient's body. They concentrated on the disease they had to beat and forgot about the patient's soul and mind, the person inside the body.

People need to be asked how they feel, what did they dream about, and one should not just be interested in their pains and how many times they woke up during the night. People need to see that their doctors care about them and not just to feel that they're another case. People want others to be interested in their life: How many children they have; What is their favorite color; and G-d forbid, when was the last time they laughed at loud? Think about yourself –when were you this person? When were you the one who lay in bed and felt the cold mechanical treatment? When was the last time you wanted to shout: 'Hay! I exist! I'm not just the patient from room number 457!'

Now is the time to act, to make a change, to use this hospital as a place of supporting healing community. A place where laughter, joy and creativity will be an important part of the healing process; A place which is based on the proper way of how healthcare should be. In Gesundheit hospital Doctors will work for almost no pay and patients wouldn't be billed. There will be relations of mutual trust between Doctors and patients.

Come to volunteer. Come and donate. Care for the people around you! Laugh without a reason! Lower the barriers and be who you really are!

Only with your help, the medical world can be a better humane, warm, and loving, giving place.

Now is the time.

=Rationale= Our teacher decided we should write the project about movers and shakers in the twentieth century. We chose to write about a very special person called Hunter Patch Adams. Patch Adams' wish is to lead the medical world to a better humanity and to a warm and loving place. He promotes the clown care field and creates public awareness and brought up the importance of the patient's feeling during the healing process. Today, we know that the medicine alone could not promote a full medical success without cooperation with the patient and his feeling.



= = =Reflection= 1. We have learned during this project that Patch Adams is a great fighter man. He is willing to do what ever it takes to fulfill his dream. We have learned what Holistic medicen is and Clown care. Now we understand how important it is to bring those treatment fields in to hospitals all over the world. 2. During the work on this project we improve our summarizing skills, writing skills, vocabulary level and our English language skills. 3. We had a hard time finding material and also it was hard to write in a proper language. 4. We had enough time for the paper and we worked in a great pace. We had enough help and support from our teacher and when ever we needed her she was there to help us. The instructions were clear and specific and the assignments were fair. 5. We enjoyed working on this project because we were great partners and because the subject was very interesting and we became connected to it.

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