Key people Chair, Cari Brackett, Pharm.D John T. In collaboration with the institute, he promotes an alternative health care model not funded. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971.

(brother) Hunter Doherty ' Patch' Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, clown, and author. Nationality American Education, Alma mater Home town Spouse(s) Linda Edquist (1975–98 divorced) Children Atomic Zagnut Adams Lars Zig Edquist Adams Parent(s) Robert Loughridge Adams Anna Campbell Adams Relatives Robert Loughridge 'Wildman' Adams, Jr. According to Patch he had attempt to persuade the powers that be to name the film Gesundheit! (after his planned free hospital/clinic) but this idea was rejected for a variety of different reasons.Īdams in 2008 Born Hunter Doherty Adams ( ) (age 73) Washington, D.C., U.S. In 1998 a movie was made about Patch Adams (starting Robin Williams as Patch), titledPatch Adams. Why did Hunter 'Patch' Adams decide to go by the name Patch? 'Oh, Hunter is a Southern-boy name, and during the civil rights movement I was interested in abandoning all the parts of my Southern heritage,' Patch said during an interview with CNN. Did patch Adams really have a girlfriend not a woman as depicted in the Patch Adams film) was. DID PATCH ADAMS GIRLFRIEND REALLY GET MURDERED.

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