FP Report -- February 1999 Put Patch in your Assembly
The real Patch Adams will clown around and offer his pitch on health care possibilities during the Sept. 15-19 AAFP Scientific Assembly in Orlando, Fla.
What's his message? "I want family doctors to design and create their ideal medical delivery system and have fun doing it," said Hunter "Patch" Adams, M.D., a family doctor in Arlington, Va.
The real-life inspiration for the movie "Patch Adams" operated a pilot health care site for 12 years, providing free care that blended traditional and alternative therapies with artwork, nature and good humor. For the last 13 years, he has raised funds for a hospital complex that's slowly being built in Hillsboro, W.Va.
Adams will present two CME sessions at the Assembly -- an evening lecture, "Laughter and Medicine," from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 15, and a three-hour course, "Living a Life of Joy," at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 16.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1999 by American Academy of Family Physicians.
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