Patch adams m d maureen mylander (2 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 227 pages. The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine? Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care syst em? Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in th e world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and w ork with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children o r taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does wh atever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools an d international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the busin esslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship betwee n doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine.All author roy alties are used to fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in West Virginia. Adams's positive vision and plan for the future is an inspiration for those concerned with the inaccessibility of affordable, quality health care.Today's high-tech medicine has become too costly, impersonal, and grim. In h is frequent lectures to colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools, a nd conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a loving, creative, humorous huma n exchange--not a business transaction.…