- Born
- Birth nameHunter Doherty Adams
- Height6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
- Patch Adams was born on May 28, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Patch Adams (1998), The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg and Clownvets (2019). He has been married to Susan Parenti since July 28, 2010. He was previously married to Linda Edquist.
- SpousesSusan Parenti(July 28, 2010 - present)Linda Edquist(April 19, 1975 - November 3, 1998) (divorced, 2 children)
- Extremely colourful shirts and ties
- Thick moustache
- Long hair tied in a ponytail, with one side sometimes dyed
- Didn't like Patch Adams (1998).
- Personally conducts patient interviews that often last up to four hours long.
- He and his team did not receive Government funding and had to fund their hospital by working other jobs.
- Started his "Gesundheit!" institute, which is committed to bringing health care to those who cannot afford it, in 1971 after graduating medical school with twenty other people. It was located in his home and there could be up to fifty people staying there in a single night.
- He was institutionalized multiple times for suicide attempts when he was a teenager.
- Humor is an antidote to all ills.
- You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
- I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.
- I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
- At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
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