„Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.“
— Patch Adams
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 10
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Patch Adams
Geburtstag: 28. Mai 1945
Andere Namen: P. Adams
Hunter Doherty „Patch“ Adams ist ein US-amerikanischer Arzt. Er gründete 1972 das Gesundheit! Institute. Sein Leben war das Vorbild für den Film Patch Adams mit Robin Williams in der Titelrolle. Adams lebt heute in Arlington, Virginia, wo er in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut alternative Heilkunst praktiziert.
Patch Adams ist auch Sozialaktivist, „Bürger-Diplomat“, Profi-Clown, Darsteller und Autor. Jedes Jahr organisiert er eine Gruppe von freiwilligen Clowns aus der ganzen Welt, die gemeinsam nach Russland reisen, um Waisen, Kranken und allen anderen Hoffnung zu geben. 1998 hat er auch Bosnien-Herzegowina besucht. Außerdem ist er Schirmherr des Berliner Vereins namu Art for Life Network e. V., mit dessen Akteuren er seit 2009 Kinder in Berliner Kliniken besucht.
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„People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.“
— Patch Adams
Context: You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.
As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtw5nzgYpA
„I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.“
— Patch Adams
Context: Any can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.
As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016)
„The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness."“
— Patch Adams
"Conferenza con Patch Adams a Reggio Emilia" arcoiris tv (27 March 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goppIcodJo
„I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.“
— Patch Adams
As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)
„Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.“
— Patch Adams
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 129
„Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.“
— Patch Adams
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 58
„I'll give you an example — in Russia most of the hospitals don't have any pain medicine, they don't have any money. So if you're with kids with cancer, they can have metastases to the bone; which some say is the worst pain a human can experience. So a mother can be in a room with a child who hasn't stopped screaming in five months. …85% of the time I walk in there as a clown they'll stop screaming.“
— Patch Adams
As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)
„I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.“
— Patch Adams
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 121
„I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.“
— Patch Adams
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. xi
