The Fun Hospital of Patch

When exploring film history, one can find countless examples of movies that depict the medical center as a frightening place. Taking into account movies like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (Forman, 1975) and "Girl, Interrupted" (Mangold, 1999), it is a truly refreshing moment when a movie establishes the hospital as a space of joy and healing. As such, I would like to take a moment to applaud one of the few movies to represent the hospital as a truly helpful place - "Patch Adams" (Shadyac, 1998). a Real-Life Hero The film is based on the life of the real clown doctor, Patch Adams. Feeling that medicine had become too focused on solving illnesses instead of the actual welfare of patients - both in body and in spirit- he started the Gesundheit Institute in 1971. A free clinic, it operated for 12 years and served as the inspiration for the movie. A radical departure from how we envision doctors as amassing great wealth from their practice, Patch Adams felt that saving people's lives, even those that could not afford treatment, was worth more than any monetary reward. A truly inspiring initiative, I cannot think of a better actor to portray such an offbeat doctor than Robin Williams. A Dramatic Clown As one of the most popular comedic actors of all time, Robin Williams played Patch Adams to perfection. Having learned how to act in an "uplifting" movie after Dead Poets Society, Williams brought the respect necessary to play a serious doctor that also knew how to fill a potentially heartbreaking moment with laughter. In all honesty, I doubt that anyone would be able to maintain a straight face if they saw Robin Williams walk into the room with a red rubber nose. Beyond the laughter, the movie also sends the message that the ability to cure people of their sickness makes the hospital a truly magical place. Unconventional Wisdom In perhaps my favorite scene of the movie, Patch Adams enters into a psychiatric ward after experiencing deep depression. During his stay, he encounters another patient that keeps asking him to count the number of fingers on his hand. Patch continuously fails. Eventually, Patch realizes that the patient is not asking him to count the fingers on his hands but to count the number of fingers Adams sees when he looks past the hand to focus on the patient. In other words, the patient was asking Patch to look beyond the problem to find the solution. In doing so, Adams learned to accept that unconventional approaches to old problems can lead to innovations and medical breakthroughs. For the real Patch, the breakthrough was accepting that laughter is truly one of the best medicines. 967UEBPZ
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