If you’d like to write to him, his address is PO BOX 307, URBANA, IL 61803 - and check out his Facebook page to follow his weekly videos about his joyous recovery. WATCH his engaging and inspiring message below…. In a way, this has been his message for health care providers all along: lighten the mood and you will lighten the struggle. He realized, “there’s all this “negativity” around amputation,” so he has already begun joking with the hospital staff, calling his new schtick ‘Fun With Amputation’. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a medical. Patch Adams and his lifelong quest to change America's health care system. “I can have hiding little characters that sit on that screen… like a nice ‘mooning’ picture.” The film is based on the life of a real doctor, Dr. “And, I’ve been thinking of all kinds of opportunities for clowning.” “What’s beautiful is, it looks like a little TV screen on the end,” he said, describing his new shorter leg. Plus, he now has a new prop in his comedy toolkit. In medical school (1967-71) I realized that the way medicine was. The 75-year-old cheerfully described the miracle of today’s prosthetics, which allow people to run and do anything that anyone else does. Hi, there My name is Patch Adams and Im a 75-year old clown who is also a physician.
