Adams decided to create a hospital where health care is not an alienated and greedy business. Therefore, after finishing the medical school, Dr. He couldn't stand seeing the overwhelming injustice and human discrimination.
'Everything can be taken from the man but one thing: to choose who you will be!' Sometimes you can't heal people, but you can always love them. What you do in a hospital is a heroic action. It is time to change and choose love and care over money. We have lost the idea of community in our nation, we became community animals. It was told to me to spend 7,8 minutes with every patient. In med school there are no lessons taught on how it is being healthy or about the vitality of life.
Our nation doesn't support any kind of alternative medicine - he pointed out. Appearance is a way to interact with people and make them smile - he believes.Īfter welcoming all the students and audience present, he started his motivational speech with the disappointing statement that burnout of the medical society is an epidemic in the US. He looked more like a lovely foolish clown than a traditional doctor: long grey hair partly dyed to blue, hippie clothes and a fork hanging in one of his ears. Patch Adams managed easily to attract the attention of everyone from the very first moment he entered the stage.
