Adams Patch

Adams Patch

Adams Patch is perhaps America’s most prominent medical doctor, and a clown is a social activist with a severe prescription for transforming the country’s health, independently, as a nation, and as cohabitants of the planet. For those attentive in an all-inclusive approach to health and healing, Dr. Patch provides a few simple and sensible ideas that constitute the bedrock of his philosophy. He tells anyone interested in health to take responsibility for personal health, stay associated with human beings, give people gifts, and enjoy any healing approach that works. Adams founded the Gesundheit Institute, a non-profit health care organization with a mission of reframing and reclaiming the concept of the hospital.

At the onset, Dr. Patch’s vision began when he committed himself to a medical institution after planning suicide. Path’s mental condition followed a series of medical attention and sought treatment three times and made a connection with self and found a purpose to his life through compassion and humor. The experience made Dr. Patch to start pursuing a career to become a doctor and two years later enrolled in a medical school. Adam’s unconventional approach to both medicine and life followed the philosophy that patients should be treated with humor and compassion as opposed to detached diagnosis. At the age of 18, Patch established the desire to serve humanity besides deciding to remain happy. While at the medical school, he often pranked dean and students, later starting a small, free clinic where he could clown around with patients. He then formed the Gesundheit Institute and began practicing medicine as compassion through engagement with people and families.

According to Gesundheit Institute’s website, Adams writes that no medical school across the globe teaches compassion as a course thread that runs through the medical field. He further notes that a significant level of burnout in health care delivery relates to the absence of compassion in practice. Adams also describe compassion as an intentional skill carefully constructed and learned when one commits to the exploration of exercises and the opportunity. To that end, Dr. Patch developed compassion for the outsider and the marginalized by adding funny, goofy, and happy to the lives of patients. Dr. Patch started by bringing joy and laughter into the lives of outsiders and marginalized around him through goofy tricks and persistent vein of humor. The idea stemmed from his philosophy that dealing with patients requires a sense of humor and compassion. In consequent to that, Dr. Patch developed compassion through thoughtfulness and using ideas that animate behavior.

The psychology of science considers compassion is an inherent natural trait of humankind that no course in the world teaches. Preliminary evidence also show that compassion is a human instinct and an automatic response. Studies were done using chimpanzee and human infant subjects back up the claims related to the naturalness of compassionate ability. Research commissioned by the University of Chicago further found that infants learn the rule of politeness and helpful behavior and tend to overcome impediments to do so. On the contrary, Dr. Patch believes that an individual could learn compassion through skillful thought and exploring opportunities. Dr. Patch teaches that an individual can learn compassion by contracting radar to read and comprehend situations and speedy willingness to the act of care. For Adams, an individual simply decides to be compassionate and then follows the commitment with exploration. Adding fun, silly, and happy actions are some of the tactics Adams proposes as the approaches one needs to sustain compassion.

An article published by the Johns Hopkins Magazine reports that that the application of humor in the health care environment, often referred to as therapeutic humor enhances the immune system, improve digestion, and promote better sleep experience by increasing endorphin levels. Subjective evidence equally suggests psychological benefits that arise from reframing a challenging situation in a humorous light, assisting in relieving stress (Wallach, 2016). In Adams’s point of view, he fits the concept of humor in the health care system. First, he believed in forming a tie with patients through compassion as opposed to detached delivery of care. Adams focused on changing a monotonous approach to health care delivery, and used clowning as well as making people happy. He observed that most people were less proactive for their health and introduced elements of humor, compassion, and joy. Even if his approach contradicted the conventional way of health care delivery, Adams understood that patients required such kind of help. In that regard, Adams captures the concept of humor as it applies to the health care system and as an essential aspect of human health.

In the modern world, it appears as if compassion stands as a virtue less practiced as frequently as required. The rapid downturn of global economies and the need to work for extended hours tend to frustrate and exhaust people when an opportunity arises to show compassion. The above view confirms that people like Dr. Patch with compassion are few in the world. The fear of rejection and criticism also prevents people from championing for change. Suppose the world would have more people like Adams, the universe would be a better place. In the same token, if every medical practitioner shared similar sentiments to Adams, the health care system would be different. Most people read the philosophy of Adams and judge him as unprofessional. As a standard rule, the societal norms combined with tough economic times have continued to limit people from developing positive reflections about health care in addition to coinciding with Adam’s views.

In line with the philosophical ideas of Dr. Adams, it is evident that he fits in the out-group classification. Adams practices the medical profession as an outsider group that does not abide by the norms and standards of care. He assumed a conventional and unconventional approach to health care and competently changed it into his ideological world. For instance, his hospital offers no charge, demands no health insurance reimbursement, and no malpractice. Holding to the view that the out-group category presents a significant impact on others, Adams fits in such a spectrum and inspires many people to work outside the norms in the health care system.

Conclusively, Dr. Adams Patch is an inspirational medical practitioner to many people within the field and beyond. His eccentric approach to health care delivery, coupled with unique philosophical slant, establishes essential learning points for many people across all professions. Adams constituted a vision from personal experience and developed compassion to work with marginalized patients. The aspect of humor and compassion forms the basis of his out group category that offers a significant improvement to patient experience and outcome. All in all, Adams has created a distinct world within the health care profession with crucial lessons to experts in the field.