Patch Adams – författare

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 the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine. All author royalties 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.

La inspiradora y simpática historia sobre los intentos del doctor Patch Adams por traer atención médica gratuita al mundo y transformar la manera en que los médicos practican su profesión • Cuenta la historia del empeño del doctor Patch Adams por transformar el sistema de salud • Fue el tema de una película distribuida por Universal Pictures, con Robin Williams en el papel protagónico Conozcamos al doctor Patch Adams, un innovador social que ha dedicado su carrera profesional a prestar servicios médicos gratuitos. Médico, payaso, hombre de muchos talentos, Adams es fundador del Instituto Gesundheit!, una clínica casera en Virginia Occidental donde más de 15.000 personas han recibido tratamiento gratis. Adams hace cualquier cosa por ayudar a sus pacientes a sanar, sea ponerse una roja nariz postiza de payaso para alegrar a niños enfermos o acompañar afuera a un paciente perturbado y hacerlo rodar con él cuesta abajo por una colina. En sus frecuentes charlas y presentaciones en facultades de medicina y conferencias internacionales, la energía irreprimible de Adams echa por tierra la fachada profesional de la industria medica y demuestra como la necesidad de una relación afectuosa entre médico y paciente constituye la esencia verdadera de la medicina. Esta es la historia del empeño del doctor Patch Adams por transformar el sistema de salud. El Instituto Gesundheit!, que tiene cada vez más personas que lo apoyan en todo el país, pronto construirá un hospital completo de servicio gratuito que estará abierto a pacientes de cualquier parte del mundo. ¿Le parece ambicioso? Lo es. ¿Imposible? No para quienes conocen al doctor Patch. La increíble historia parece salida de una producción de Hollywood, y efectivamente lo es. No obstante, los que disfrutaron de la película Patch Adams y quieren conocer todos los detalles de la historia que la inspiró, ¡Gesundheit! es exactamente lo que les mandó el médico. Una parte de lo que se recaude con la venta de este libro se utilizará para financiar el Instituto Gesundheit! de Patch Adams, un hospital dedicado de lleno a los servicios médicos gratuitos.

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 system • 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 the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams''s irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine. All author royalties 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 his frequent lectures to colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools, and conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a loving, creative, humorous human exchange--not a business transaction.