Robin Williams is an amazing man! In Patch Adams his character Hunter said some of the most inspirational things I’ve ever heard. The movie along with the various quotes had a very positive impact on me and I’d like to share them with you.
I’ve organized these quotes into 2 categories: inspirational and funny.
If you know anyone that is in the medical field or simply spends a lot of time in the hospital (or likes Patch Adams!) – I encourage you to share these quotes with them – as I think they have the potential to improve someone else’s life. Even if it’s just a simple laugh, that’s enough – read quote #1 below to see what I mean.
The character Corinne was loosely based on Patch’s 1 st wife Lynda, who Patch did meet while he was in medical school (the scene with the room full of balloons is based on a real life date that Patch set up for himself and Lynda), but their relationship was quite different that that portrayed in the film. Finally, the Patch Adams script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Robin Williams movie. Mac download torrent. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Patch Adams.
Patch Adams Quotes
1.
Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs.
Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases
Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases
Hunter – Patch Adams
2.
Patch Adams Corinne Death
You treat a disease, you win, you loose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.
Hunter – Patch Adams
3.
[standing on the edge of a cliff contemplating suicide. Hunter talks to God…] So what now, huh? What do you want from me? [looks down over cliff, a rock tumbles off] Yeah, I could do it. We both know you wouldn’t stop me. So answer me please. Tell me what you’re doing. Okay, let’s look at the logic. You create man. Man suffers enormous amounts of pain. Man dies. Maybe you should have had just a few more brainstorming sessions prior to creation. You rested on the seventh day. Maybe you should’ve spent that day on compassion. [looks down over the cliff again] You know what? You’re not worth it. [walks away from the cliff]
Hunter – Patch Adams
4.
You’re focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution.
Arthur Mendelson – Patch Adams
5.
When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.
Corrine Fisher – Patch Adams
6.
Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
Hunter – Patch Adams
Patch Adams Corinne Fisher
7.
What’s wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
Hunter – Patch Adams
8.
All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers, all of us. All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home. It’s hard to describe what I felt like then. Picture yourself walking for days in the driving snow; you don’t even know you’re walking in circles. The heaviness of your legs in the drifts, your shouts disappearing into the wind. How small you can feel, and how far away home can be. Home. The dictionary defines it as both a place of origin and a goal or destination. And the storm? The storm was all in my mind. Or as the poet Dante put it: In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a dark wood, for I had lost the right path. Eventually I would find the right path, but in the most unlikely place.
Hunter – Patch Adams
9.
We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.
Hunter – Patch Adams
10.
Now you have the ability to keep me from graduating. You can keep me from getting the title and the white coat. But you can’t control my spirit, gentlemen. You can’t keep me from learning, you can’t keep me from studying. So you have a choice: you can have me as a professional colleague, passionate, or you can have me as an outspoken outsider, still adament. Either way I’ll probably still be viewed as a thorn. But I promise you one thing: I am a thorn that will not go away.
Hunter – Patch Adams
11.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly without complexities or pride. I love you because I know no other way then this. So close that your hand, on my chest, is my hand. So close, that when you close your eyes, I fall asleep.
Hunter – Patch Adams
Funny Quotes
12.
You learn anything about proctology yet Patch? Good, take care of this asshole for me, will ya?
Arthur Mendelson – Patch Adams
13.
We can head on down to the maternity ward. You know those chicks put out.
Hunter – Patch Adams
14.
Our job is to rigorously and ruthlessly train the humanity out of you and make you into something better. We’re gonna make doctors out of you.
Dean Walcott
15.
Hunter Patch Adams: Last night with Rudy, I connected to another human being. I want more of that. I want to learn about people, help them with their troubles.
Dr. Prack: That’s what I do.
Hunter Patch Adams: But you suck at it.
Dr. Prack: That’s what I do.
Hunter Patch Adams: But you suck at it.
Hunter – Patch Adams
16.
Joletta: Look here, Judy, another future boss.
Hunter Patch Adams: Oh, I wouldn’t look at it like that.
Joletta: You may think I’m exaggerating, but in another five years you’ll be so full of yourself you’ll have to hang a cup out your ass just to catch the excess.
Hunter Patch Adams: Oh, I wouldn’t look at it like that.
Joletta: You may think I’m exaggerating, but in another five years you’ll be so full of yourself you’ll have to hang a cup out your ass just to catch the excess.
Hunter – Patch Adams
17.
Who likes to masturbate? [Everyone in room raises their hands]
Hunter – Patch Adams
18.
[imitating a skeleton] I have a boner. Wait, I am a boner.
Hunter – Patch Adams
19.
Hunter Patch Adams: Hi. Patch Adams.
Mitch Roman: Mitch Roman. Georgetown University. I was awarded the William F. Thompson Scientific Achievement Award.
Hunter Patch Adams: Mmm. Emerson Elementary. I once drew a picture of a rabbit that got me two gold stars.
Mitch Roman: Mitch Roman. Georgetown University. I was awarded the William F. Thompson Scientific Achievement Award.
Hunter Patch Adams: Mmm. Emerson Elementary. I once drew a picture of a rabbit that got me two gold stars.
Patch Adams
2o.
Mitch Roman: I don’t like you!
Hunter Patch Adams: Why don’t you like me? You’re a prick and I like you.
Hunter Patch Adams: Why don’t you like me? You’re a prick and I like you.
Patch Adams
*Which one of these “Patch Adams Quotes” did you like best? Do you know of any other good quotes from the movie that I left out? Please let me know in the comments!
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For my movie assignment I decided to review the film, Patch Adams. Patch Adams is played by Robin Williams. The movie starts off with Hunter Adams, who admits himself into a psychiatric hospital for suicide. After staying there for awhile and helping his friends, who are also patients, one even gave him the name Patch, he decides he wants to go to medical school so he can help others. Patch gets into Virginia Medical University, where he spends his time trying to meet patients and help them even though, a few times it almost cost him his spot in medical school. Patch really thought patients were healed through happiness not just medicine, which most doctors including his dean disagreed with. Eventually into his third year of medical school Patch gets land and a house to fix up so he can open a clinic to help people who don’t have the insurance or money to go to a hospital. Soon after the opening, his girlfriend Korinne is murdered by a patient, who they were helping. This really caused Patch to question his idea of medicine and almost cost him to give up on his dream. Eventually, Patch had to plead his case in front of the medical board because Dean Wolcott was trying to get him dismissed from school for being “excessively happy” and helping patients without a license. In the end, Hunter (Patch) Adams was able to graduate medical school and opened his own clinic that helped patients without insurance or formal facilities and is in the process of opening the Gesundheit Hospital in West Virginia. I really enjoyed this movie and was very eager to watch it because it is based on a true story. It also intrigued me how Patch goes against the norm of just practicing medicine, he wants to get to know a patient on an emotional level, which is something I truly believe in and is something we also touched base on in this class.
During Patch’s start at medical school we see and learn all about the passion he has for helping others. One of his first lectures at medical school is one from Dean Wolcott. We learn that he wants to “take humanity” out of the medical students in order to make them better. Patch is astonished by this and sees this as power and control instead of actually being more concerned about the patient himself, which is what he believes is a doctors job. Patch learns that as a medical student he actually doesn’t get to see, communicate, or treat patients until his third year. At this point, it is merely about the textbook and memorizing facts instead of connecting with patients. Patch is really interested in getting an emotional response from patients for example a smile, not just a programmed response. Patch believes in treating the patient as well as the disease. This idea has much to do with topics we learned about and discussed during this course. Much of what Patch believes in is doctor patient communication. During this course, we learned about Arthur Kleiman in section two. Arthur Kleiman was a U.S. doctor, who pioneered the idea of physicians to better their job of healing patients if they listen more fully and more to the meaning of what the patient is saying than just for diagnostic purposes, which we learned was illness narratives. We learned that illness narratives are a way for a person to express their ideas of what the meaning of illness means to them. The same illness can mean different things to different people. This in turn means that different treatments are necessary for different patients. “Furthermore, these models- which can be thought of as cognitive maps-are anchored in strong emotions, feelings that are difficult to express openly and that strongly color one person’s reactions to another’s explanatory models” (pg 122, Kleiman). We learn from Kleiman what happens when physicians are too concentrated on the physical symptoms of disease that they cannot even allow patients to speak social, spiritual, emotional, or psychological aspects of their lives. We learned that dismissing other aspects of personal life that could affect a disease like stress, means you aren’t fully treating the patient because these things are just as important. Patch Adams is a person who believes a patient’s emotion is just as important when treating them. Patch believes that all of us are dying and that we need to improve health overall, the idea that it is important to improve quality of life not just death. Patch’s beliefs are very different from those we learned in class that included Western Biomedicine. We learned that Rene Descartes starts the idea of Western medicine, which splits the mind and body completely, the spirit or soul is not important towards health and wellness but it is important as the subject of religion, which is separate from the field of medicine. We learned that Cartesian duality is the split of the body and the mind, which is totally opposite of what Patch believed in as a doctor. Throughout the movie we learn of Patch’s fight for his idea of what medicine is and how it should be practiced. In the end, he gets to graduate medical school and eventually opens his own home based clinic that is all about the wellness of the patient overall. He treats his patients without payment, malpractice insurance, or formal facilities. He ends up purchasing 105 acres of land in West Virginia and starts the construction of the Gesundheit Hospital. Patch gets to fulfill his dream and really help people, which in the end is all he wanted.
I really enjoyed this movie, it was very moving and definitely touched me. I think it would be a great addition to this class because it shows us both aspects of medicine. It depicts the side of just looking at the patient as a disease and to just use textbook medicine to heal someone, while it also shows the other aspect. It teaches us to think of patients as people, ones who have feelings and emotions.
Gabriel, Cynthia. “Week 3: Cartesian Duality, Biomedicine, and “Sprit”.” Lecture, July 14, 2015.
Kleinman, Arthur. “Conflicting Explanatory Models in the Care of the Chronically Ill.” Illness Narratives, 122. New York: Basic Books, 1988.