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065129 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 95345 KB; MP3 file size: 193354 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Performer |
Read by Arte Johnson. |
| Note |
Duration: 6:51:29. |
| Summary |
In authenticity is our modern form of plague: it kills life. At time when the power of technology makes possible undreamed--of interventions in the diseases of mankind, the very relationship between doctor and patients has become a battleground. Meet Hunter D. "Patch" Adams, M.D., the Clown. A social revolutionary and the one-man show who believes in "horse and buggy" medicine and never charges his patients, his medical career has been devoted to giving away health care one of the most expensive things in America for free. In 1971, Adams and a few colleagues founded the Gesundheit Institute, a forty-bed free hospital on 310 acres in a medically under-served area in northern West Virginia, utilizing an "unorthodox" approach to medicine: laughter, humor, the philosophy of listening, not just hearing, and doctor and patient as intimate, respecting partners. |
| Subject |
Physician and patient. -- Sound recordings.
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Gesundheit Institute.
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Community health services -- West Virginia. -- Sound recordings.
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Medical care, Cost of -- United States. -- Sound recordings.
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Health reformers. -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Arte, 1934-
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780787118280 (OCoLC)40740492 |
| ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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