Also features Philip Seymour Hoffman in a smaller role as Patchs roommate. To do this, he bucks authority, dresses up as a clown, and acts silly and (on occasion) unprofessionally.
Tragedy strikes, and Adams' career is put in jeopardy, forcing him to defend his style and philosophy before a board of jurists determined to bar him from practicing medicine. Patch Adams is a Based on a True Story movie starring Robin Williams as Hunter 'Patch' Adams, a medical student who wants to treat people, not just diseases. Adams perseveres, however, even starting his own low-cost rural clinic called the Gesundheit Institute, and wooing a pretty fellow student, Carin (Monica Potter). Determined to provide emotional and spiritual relief as well as medicine, Adams clowns around for his patients, getting to know them personally.Īlthough his efforts seem to work wonders and the hospital nursing staff is grateful for the levity Adams provides, his methods alienate his uptight roommate Mitch (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as well as the staff and faculty of his school. His experiences there convince Adams to become a doctor, and he enrolls in medical school, where he is appalled at the cold, clinical professionalism that alienates patients from their caregivers. It presents the true story of a Virginia medical student who breaks all the rules by daring to proclaim that the best medicine for patients is listening, love. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Abstract: Inspired by a true story, Patch Adams (1998) tells the life of a suicidal man (a man with manic depressive disorder, or to use a much more.
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