Frases de Patch Adams
Patch Adams
Fecha de nacimiento: 28. Mayo 1945
Otros nombres: P. Adams
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams, mayormente conocido como el médico de la risoterapia , es un médico estadounidense, activista social, diplomático y escritor. Fundó el Instituto Gesundheit! en 1971. Cada año organiza un grupo de voluntarios de todo el mundo para viajar a distintos países, vestidos de payasos, en un esfuerzo por llevar el humor a los huérfanos, pacientes y otras personas. A partir de abril de 2015, que forma parte de Green Shadow Cabinet de los Estados Unidos como " secretario de Salud para la salud holística " En su vida se inspiró la película Patch Adams, en la cual Robin Williams interpreta el papel de Hunter.
Adams actualmente vive en Arlington, Virginia, donde promueve medios alternativos de sanación para enfermos en colaboración con el instituto. Es el inventor de la risoterapia con fines médicos y terapéuticos, y el responsable de la inclusión de ésta en la medicina moderna.
Frases Patch Adams
„Recoge la basura que encuentres en una zona de tu ciudad; y vigílala. Cuenta lo que has hecho.“
Fuente: Esquivel Vásquez, Pablo. Reinventarse o reinventarse: 9 claves para cumplir tus sueños. Edición digital, 2016. ISBN 9789569197710.
„Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.“
Fuente: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 10
„People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.“
As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtw5nzgYpA
Contexto: You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.
„I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.“
As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016)
Contexto: Any can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.
„Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.“
Fuente: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 129
„I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.“
Fuente: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. xi
„I'll give you an example — in Russia most of the hospitals don't have any pain medicine, they don't have any money. So if you're with kids with cancer, they can have metastases to the bone; which some say is the worst pain a human can experience. So a mother can be in a room with a child who hasn't stopped screaming in five months. …85% of the time I walk in there as a clown they'll stop screaming.“
As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)
„The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness."“
"Conferenza con Patch Adams a Reggio Emilia" arcoiris tv (27 March 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goppIcodJo
„I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.“
As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)
„I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.“
Fuente: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 121
