Hunter Adams had mental health issues as a teenager and spent time in a hospital. After leaving, he went to medical school in Virginia where he had unconventional approaches, like wearing flower shirts instead of white coats. He believed patients needed more than just medicine and tried to make them laugh and feel less lonely. After school, he co-founded the Gesundheit Institute to build a clinic with a different patient-centered approach. Adams became famous in the 1980s and his life story was turned into the successful 1998 film Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams.
Hunter Adams had mental health issues as a teenager and spent time in a hospital. After leaving, he went to medical school in Virginia where he had unconventional approaches, like wearing flower shirts instead of white coats. He believed patients needed more than just medicine and tried to make them laugh and feel less lonely. After school, he co-founded the Gesundheit Institute to build a clinic with a different patient-centered approach. Adams became famous in the 1980s and his life story was turned into the successful 1998 film Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams.
Hunter Adams had mental health issues as a teenager and spent time in a hospital. After leaving, he went to medical school in Virginia where he had unconventional approaches, like wearing flower shirts instead of white coats. He believed patients needed more than just medicine and tried to make them laugh and feel less lonely. After school, he co-founded the Gesundheit Institute to build a clinic with a different patient-centered approach. Adams became famous in the 1980s and his life story was turned into the successful 1998 film Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams.
Hunter Adams had mental health issues as a teenager and spent time in a hospital. After leaving, he went to medical school in Virginia where he had unconventional approaches, like wearing flower shirts instead of white coats. He believed patients needed more than just medicine and tried to make them laugh and feel less lonely. After school, he co-founded the Gesundheit Institute to build a clinic with a different patient-centered approach. Adams became famous in the 1980s and his life story was turned into the successful 1998 film Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams.
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When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy, and he
spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a hospital for people with mental health problems. When he left the hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to medical school in the state of Virginia, in the U.S. There he often did things differently from the doctors and other students. For example, he didnt like the doctors white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients. He also tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didnt like Adams because he was too different. But Adams believed that people in a hospital need more than medicine. He saw that patients were lonely and unhappy. He tried to help them, not just as patients but as people, too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital. He often put on a red nose to look like a clown and to make the children laugh. When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams and some other doctors began an organization called the Gesundheit Institute. One of their goals is to build a clinic and teaching centre. It will be a place with a different way of working with sick people. Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1998, Universal Pictures made a successful movie about Adams life called Patch Adams. Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, Hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor whos a friend. I enjoyed playing him a) Hunter Adams went to Virginia because he wanted to be a doctor ____________________________________________________________________________________ b) Adams wore shirts with flowers on them because it made the patients laugh. ____________________________________________________________________________________ c) Adams thought that many people the in hospital werent happy and need to be in company ___________________________________________________________________________________ d) Adams started the Gesundheit Institute on his own. ________________________________________________________________________________________ e) Universal Pictures made a movie about Hunter Adams because he built a successful hospital
