Patch Adams Hospital 2013

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.When I watched this movie Health class, I was interested to see what it was about. I was met with a gloomy, depressing scenario of Patch arriving to a mental asylum. I was happy so far when Patch met with someone to 'look beyond' just 4 fingers and that Patch helped his roommate reach the bathroom with his childlike imagination.

But then, everything got running downhill when Patch forced that mental hospital doctor to let him out and told him that he sucked at his job. Patch then proceeds to claim that he is helping people, even if he is acting very arrogant. Then, when I looked on the Internet, Patch Adams was actually a real person in real life. This movie, as it turns out, was not a correct description of the real Patch Adams.

Unfortunately, in the movie Patch Adams was usually portrayed as a funnyman who tries to make patients laugh rather than truly cure them of their illnesses. The other characters, such as Carin, Patch's college roommate and the Dean, feel like they are just created to make Patch the most likable with their actions against Patch(ex.ignoring Patch's assistance, tattling on Patch, and threatening to expel Patch). That includes the people who love Patch, they are usually portrayed as the 'nice' people just because of their affiliation with Patch. The way how the butterfly, ALONG with the sappy music playing during that scene made it's way to Patch suddenly was also rather shallow and cheesy. It feels like the butterfly was there to make the movie so charming too.

I also did not like the way the mentally ill guy was portrayed in that movie, he was treated as 'psychopathic' because of the way he gave 'weird looks' to Carin, before killing her and himself. The scene when Carin gets killed felt forced and contrived in order to provoke drama so that Patch could commit suicide again.

Dr Hunter Patch Adams Hospital

I even HATED that ending when Patch exposes his nude buttocks to the audience at his graduation ceremony,. The movie suddenly ends with a note I can't remember. Positives:Great acting, lessons about treating patients the right way, some jokes are rather funny Negatives:Shallow music, flat characters, does not follow Patch's true nature, some jokes are too crude to be laughable, and silly situations Expand. Robin William's funny antics and soft-spoken humanity are the only good things about this overly sappy movie. Between the flat characters, the mustache-twirling villains (the medical establishment, of all things), and the fact that the movie in no way accurately portrays the real life and Robin William's funny antics and soft-spoken humanity are the only good things about this overly sappy movie.

Between the flat characters, the mustache-twirling villains (the medical establishment, of all things), and the fact that the movie in no way accurately portrays the real life and character of Patch Adams, it's a wreck. This is a very well made annoying film.

I've often said that movies NEED to be manipulative, but they don't need to kick you in the crotch to make you cry. I'm really here to defend Robin Williams, who's a damn good actor and turns out a great performance in the No. This is a very well made annoying film. I've often said that movies NEED to be manipulative, but they don't need to kick you in the crotch to make you cry. I'm really here to defend Robin Williams, who's a damn good actor and turns out a great performance in the irritating central role of a doomed movie.

Not enough to save it, because his good performance pushes with the tide instead of against it. You want a good film with Robin Williams in a serious role, rent Good Will Hunting or.there is another one. Awakenings, that's it. Or, at a push, What Dreams May Come, similarly manipulative to this film, but with imagination and life to balance it out.

My twitter Bio says “Striving to be South Africa’s Patch Adams.” I’m now a qualified independent medical practitioner. It was during my community service year that someone gave me the nickname Patch Adams because of my smile and constant laughter which play a vital role in the way I practice medicine.My twitter profile picture. I love smiling and laughter!I had watched the movie “Patch Adams” years ago and all I remembered was that he helped his patients through laughter and fun.

I love making patients and people in general, laugh and smile so therefore I thought it appropriate that I claim that I’m “striving to be South Africa’s Patch Adams.”A few months ago I happened to watch the movie again. It hit me, how the entire story of Patch Adams mimics my life story.

The similarities in our stories are obvious and many. Hunter “Patch” Adams the central character of the movie finds his gift for helping people through unusual circumstances. He commits himself to a mental hospital following a suicide attempt. It is through helping other patients when he himself is a patient (on the same level as them) that he realizes his greatest desire is to become a doctor.

He finds that by engaging with the whole person and not just the illness, he is able to help and in some instances cure people. The best part of the story (for me) is that Patch Adams is a real person. The movie is a true story.Robin Williams in the role of Patch Adams.

Healing with the help of laughter!The real Hunter Patch Adams!I did not commit myself to a mental hospital but in recent years I have found myself a patient. Daily I face being both patient and doctor.

This has I feel given me insight and a gift. A gift of true empathy. I would have preferred to have received this gift without having to deal with a developmental venous anomaly and a spastic gait. I might be my patients’ doctor, but I am not godlike, perfect or untouched by challenges. My challenges are physical and visible for all to see.

I can’t hide them. My challenges put me on the same level as my patients (particularly last year when I was working with people with physical disabilities). Introducing red sock Fridays to Western Cape Rehabilitation Centre was yet another leveling the playing field between patients and health care providers.Levelling the playing field between doctor, nurses and patients!Through a slow process of self-acceptance of my physical challenges, I have seen how patients relate to me far easier than able bodied doctors. The more I learn to accept who I am, the more open a person I become and the easier it is to accept being a beacon of hope to my patients. Ask anyone who knows me well, I don’t being called an inspiration but I have realized that through being open and sharing my story I can help others.Laughter and smiling has always been a part of who I am. I believe (because I have experienced it for myself) that a smile goes a long way to making one feel better. I know for a fact that laughter makes challenges easier to face.

I know this because laughter has helped me through some very dark periods in my life.The biggest difference between Patch Adams and me is that Patch embraced being different from the beginning. He never tried to hide from it or hide it. For me, accepting my differences has been a slow journey.

It’s a journey I’m still on.