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Patch Adams is a 1998 semi-biographical comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams on the life story of Dr. Hunter Patch Adams and his book, Gesundheit Good. But is analogous to a real life friend of Adams (a man) who was murdered Texas businessman Greg Williams. More for Patch Adams Mistakes Continuity mistake: When Patch and his roommate are arguing about why he wanted Patch out of the college, the book on the desk changes to a very different looking book between shots - note the tabs and red-edged pages. The trivia items below may give away important plot points. In real life, Patch Adams close friend who was murdered was a man, not a female love interest. The clip carin was murdered from Patch Adams (1998) with Daniel London, Robin Williams Patch. You just got a telephone call. Dean Anderson wants to see you in his office immediately. Walcott found out about our borrowed supplies. Ye of little faith. Dean Anderson, I know what this is all about, and I assure you, sir- Sit. Patch Adams was born as Hunter Doherty Adams on May 28, 1945, in Washington DC, into a military family to Robert Loughridge Adams and Anna Campbell Stewart. His father served in World War II and Korean War and died while he was posted in Germany, in 1961.
'Patch Adams' made me want to spray the screen with Lysol. This movie is shameless. It's not merely a tearjerker. It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia. It is allegedly based on the life of a real man named Patch Adams, who I have seen on television, where he looks like Salvador Dali's seedy kid brother. If all of these things really happened to him, they should have abandoned Robin Williams and brought in Jerry Lewis for the telethon.
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As the movie opens, a suicidal Patch has checked into a mental hospital. There he finds that the doctors don't help him, but the patients do. On the outside, he determines to become a doctor in order to help people and enrolls in medical school. Soon he finds, not to our amazement, that medicine is an impersonal business. When a patient is referred to by bed number or disease, Patch reasonably asks, 'What's her name?' Patch is a character. To himself, he's an irrepressible bundle of joy, a zany live wire who brings laughter into the lives of the sick and dying. To me, he's a pain in the wazoo. If this guy broke into my hospital room and started tap-dancing with bedpans on his feet, I'd call the cops. The lesson of 'Patch Adams' is that laughter is the best medicine. I know Norman Cousins cured himself by watching Marx Brothers movies, but to paraphrase Groucho, I enjoy a good cigar, but not when it explodes. I've been lucky enough to discover doctors who never once found it necessary to treat me while wearing a red rubber nose.
Patch Adams
By Bill Guggenheim
The ADC Project
The movie 'Patch Adams' is based upon the book, 'Gesundheit: Good Heath Is a Laughing Matter,' which is about the life of an actual doctor named Hunter 'Patch' Adams. In one brief, yet powerful scene it portrays a symbolic after-death communication (ADC) experience.
Patch's fellow medical student and girlfriend, Carin, is shot and killed by a psychiatric patient she is helping, and her patient then commits suicide. Patch is devastated when he attends Carin's funeral. He is about to abandon his dreams and his goals completely, and he plans to withdraw from medical school at once.
First he returns to a beautiful vista in the mountains, where he had joyously taken Carin one day, to show her the acreage he wanted to buy to build his medical facility on. But this time he is in severe emotional pain as he expresses his greatest despair and his deepest doubts about God and his purpose in life. He bitterly challenges God and demands an answer to his profound questions.
Exactly at that moment, a magnificent monarch butterfly alights on his carryall case, and then it flies to him and lands on his body -- on his chest, over his heart. A short while later, it spirals upwards, into the sky, leaving Patch with a huge smile on his face and filled with renewed hope.
Although no words are used, Patch obviously recognizes the symbolism of the butterfly, and he intuitively knows it is a sign from Carin and from God. Much of his grief is healed during this single ADC, and he soon returns to medical school to resume his compassionate ministry as a physician to the poor.
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Presumably this is a factual incident that occurred in the life of the real Hunter 'Patch' Adams, M.D. as he attended medical school at the University of Virginia during the late '60s and early '70s.
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For more information about this beautiful, sensitive film, see: http://www.patchadams.com/
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This article was published by The ADC Project on January 3, 1999 and was written by Bill Guggenheim.