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Institute (originally known to many as the Zanies), which ran as a free community hospital from 1971 to 1984. Parenti, DMA Website Soon after graduation, Patch, Linda, and friends founded the Gesundheit! Key people Chair, Cari Brackett, Pharm.D John T. In collaboration with the institute, he promotes an alternative health care model not funded. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people. (brother) Hunter Doherty ' Patch' Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, clown, and author. Nationality American Education, Alma mater Home town Spouse(s) Linda Edquist (1975–98 divorced) Children Atomic Zagnut Adams Lars Zig Edquist Adams Parent(s) Robert Loughridge Adams Anna Campbell Adams Relatives Robert Loughridge 'Wildman' Adams, Jr. It is mentioned in the book that the real Patch Adams even asks his patients what kind of death they want.Īdams in 2008 Born Hunter Doherty Adams ( ) (age 73) Washington, D.C., U.S. The chapter 'Humor and Healing, or Why we're building a silly hospital' contains a part named 'Fun Death', in which Adams criticizes that the society is uncomfortable with death that only a few are willing to discuss this matter. The famous movie quote 'What's wrong with Death, sir?', which Patch Adams said in this trial can be seen as a direct reference to the book 'Gesundheit' by Hunter Adams, which the movie is partly based on. Of the original 87 members, only 48 survived and reached California. When food supplies ran out, some of the group resorted to cannibalism to make it through the winter. When Patch is bothering his classmates with the anatomical skeleton he makes a joke about the 'Donner Party.' This is a historical reference to the Donner Party, a group of wagon train pioneers who left for California in 1846 and became stuck in the Sierra Nevada mountain range during the winter after an early November snow fall made the trip through impossible until the spring. The clip carin was murdered from Patch Adams.

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