Patch Adams
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"Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams" is an American physician, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where Clown Care/they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people.

Adams is currently based in Urbana, Illinois/Urbana, Illinois. In collaboration with the institute, he promotes an alternative health care model, not funded by health insurance/insurance policies.

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Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

It's humiliating that a person who kicks a ball makes more money than a school teacher.

They want to have a fabulous listener, they want sweet tenderness and no sense that you are in a hurry.

[Nonviolent people] really have so few tools to face a capitalist system, ... All we really have are ourselves and our ideas. Our ideas have not done the job.

My work is to end violence, and to bring harmony to people.

They had every reason to be sad and angry, yet people were instantly friendly, engaging and giving.

They owed something; we wanted them to feel they belonged to something.

You have a brilliant mind, and like many brilliant people you don't necessarily think the rules apply.

We love our patients and our patients love us. You don't sue someone you love.