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Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy Paperback - 1998
by Adams M.D., Patch; Mylander, Maureen [Primary Contributor]
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Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Studios starring Robin Williams as Patch Adams, this book tells the inspiring and hilarious story of Adams' quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine.
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- Title Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy
- Author Adams M.D., Patch; Mylander, Maureen [Primary Contributor]
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-10-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 089281781X-3-24519541
- ISBN 9780892817818 / 089281781X
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (23.06 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Library of Congress subjects Physician and patient, Medical care, Cost of - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99187488
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.101
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From the rear cover
HEALTH / BIOGRAPHY "Patch Adams's book ought to be required reading for patients, doctors, and ordinary mortals of all kinds. I have learned from Patch the courage it takes to be different and to reveal your wounds: behind his clownlike persona lies a great deal of wisdom, and it often falls to the court jester to speak the truth that those in power need to hear." --Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles "At last, Patch Adams has put on paper his vision of patient-centered health care--a vision that has inspired so many over the years. Patch's "crazy dream" is, in reality, the root of what good health care should be all about and too often isn't. Any health care professional who reads Gesundheit! will come away with a renewed sense of mission and joy about what they do." --Rick Wade, Sr. Vice President, The American Hospital Association Meet PATCH ADAMS, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his life to giving away health care. Doctor, clown, man of many hats, Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice in West Virginia that has treated more than 15,000 people for free. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures and performances at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address how the need for a caring relationship between doctor and patient is at the heart of true medicine. This is the story of Patch Adams's lifetime quest to transform the healthcare system. Gaining supporters across the country, the Gesundheit Institute will soon build a free, full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in the world. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know Patch. Patch Adams's amazing story seems like the stuff Hollywood movies are made from--and it is. But for those who loved the movie Patch Adams and want to know the whole story that inspired it, Gesundheit! is just what the doctor ordered. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to fund Patch Adams's Gesundheit Institute, a hospital devoted to free health care.
