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Patch Adams recommends that you can help maintain your health with joy, laughter, and kindness. This is going to wreak havoc in the health care industry because those things aren't covered by your HMO. Patch also suggests that sometimes the most helpful treatment is hope, love, relaxation, and the simple joy of living. This book is filled with good, honest, common sense. For some, it will be an epiphany. Even if you're not ill, this book offers positive ways to lead life. Hopefully, it will affect those who need this information the most: the medical community.
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Patch Adams, MD
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love the book but there again perhaps having been to G!I in real terms, perhaps I am biased. Contrary to John Doe's [just the name says it all] review, I loved it. Yes, Patch is a little whacky but Robin Williams got him right on the button and the concept is right on the money too.
Patch is a very caring person who doesn't presume to know it all but he is right about fun and laughter and if people lightened up a little instead of allowing every day stresses to win, then the NHS would be in a lot better shape. Anyone who says any differently is having a serious bout of sense of humour failure!
Patch is a very caring person who doesn't presume to know it all but he is right about fun and laughter and if people lightened up a little instead of allowing every day stresses to win, then the NHS would be in a lot better shape. Anyone who says any differently is having a serious bout of sense of humour failure!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What can I say? This book was one of the worst I have ever read. After watching the film Patch Adams, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I decided to find out more about the man himself and went on his website. As a medical student, I found his attitudes towards patient care refreshing. However, whereas on the website and as portrayed by Robin Williams he is a breath of fresh air, in this book he just comes across as a nutcase. His slight eccentricity is replaced by outrageous "wackiness" which just comes across as strange and unappealing. Not to mention the cartoon drawings which are plastered throughout the book which are intended to be funny but just make it an even more painful read. It boasts that the book is essential for anyone in the medical profession, however if you followed the advice that Patch Adams gives you in the book, you would end up as a patient yourself- in a psychiatric ward. Don't waste your money.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
This guy is a modern hero.
7 Jan 1999
Format:Paperback
I saw the movie and laughed and cried and was filed with hope and joy. This guy sould run for President as he has INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. I read this book and gave two more copies as gifts. I am an avid explorer of holistic medicine and teach Neurosync behavior modification classes, so I understand just how important a positive outlook and positive attitude is in staying healthy and motivating others. I highly recommend this book.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Holistic Humor for Health and Healing
6 Dec 2006
Format:Paperback
In this wacky book, Patch Adams joins forces with Jerry Van Amerongen to give the reader a practical guide in introducing laughter into the healing process. The book is divided into three sections. The first section is filled with thoughts on being well. Dr. Adams provides instruction on being healthy and then provides some action steps to assimilate faith, humor, curiosity, relaxation, passion, exercise, nutrition, friendship, service, and other positive values into your daily life. These guidelines are cleverly illustrated by Jerry Van Amerongen with one panel cartoons that bring home the message of the suggestion and motivate the reader to take action. Amerongen is the creator of the Ballard Street syndicated cartoon strip.
Section two follows the same format but offers suggestions on what the reader can do to make a visit in the hospital, to shut-ins, or someone in the community, beneficial and enjoyable for both parties. These steps are thoughtful, often neglected and easy to carry out. Again the impact of the action steps are enhanced and impacted through the humor of Jerry's cartoon illustrations.
Suggestions are also offered on how to be a good hospital patient, from gaining understanding by asking questions regarding your treatment, careful listening to instructions, and reflection on your life and what you have done and want to accomplish in the future. Van Amerongen's humor helps the readers accept the situation and are then motivated to make the most of their circumstances.
The third section deals with special concerns when visiting, children, teenagers, the elderly, mentally ill, disabled, and dying patients. These helpful suggestions make the impact of your visit pleasurable for the patient, the caregivers, and yourself. The cartoons help the reader visualize the words of the text.
Adams has also provided a very comprehensive bibliography entitled "A Booklover's Search for Understanding and Ideas."
Combining Patch Adams' philosophy of laughter in healing with Jerry Van Amerongen's humor was a stroke of brilliance. The combination has made this book an enjoyable read, and produced in this reader, many smiles, some chuckles, and hearty laughs. It also gave me a new sensitivity to the importance of "healing the world one visit at a time."
Section two follows the same format but offers suggestions on what the reader can do to make a visit in the hospital, to shut-ins, or someone in the community, beneficial and enjoyable for both parties. These steps are thoughtful, often neglected and easy to carry out. Again the impact of the action steps are enhanced and impacted through the humor of Jerry's cartoon illustrations.
Suggestions are also offered on how to be a good hospital patient, from gaining understanding by asking questions regarding your treatment, careful listening to instructions, and reflection on your life and what you have done and want to accomplish in the future. Van Amerongen's humor helps the readers accept the situation and are then motivated to make the most of their circumstances.
The third section deals with special concerns when visiting, children, teenagers, the elderly, mentally ill, disabled, and dying patients. These helpful suggestions make the impact of your visit pleasurable for the patient, the caregivers, and yourself. The cartoons help the reader visualize the words of the text.
Adams has also provided a very comprehensive bibliography entitled "A Booklover's Search for Understanding and Ideas."
Combining Patch Adams' philosophy of laughter in healing with Jerry Van Amerongen's humor was a stroke of brilliance. The combination has made this book an enjoyable read, and produced in this reader, many smiles, some chuckles, and hearty laughs. It also gave me a new sensitivity to the importance of "healing the world one visit at a time."
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Changing the World by changing yourself
23 July 2004
Format:Paperback
This book is a practical guide on bringing the Gesundheit! vision into your own community. An easy enjoyable read, it offers suggestions on how to begin a life of joyful service by visiting folks in your own community. It offers an immensely practical love strategy. You can change your world!
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