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ine uipioma comes irom me Medical College of Virginia.
The mission is raising $2.5 million for the non-profit Gesundheit Institute and a 40-bed hospital in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, where patients will receive free medical care that addresses both body and soul.
The message is “Good health is a laughing matter.” And more. It is a plea for closeness and a cry for peace. “We’re not just talking curing illness here. I mean, we are, but if you cure cancer and leave a world full of nuclear missiles, what have you done?” Dr. Adams asks.
Hunter Adams was an Army brat, the son of career officer, and he grew up around the world: Germany, Japan, Texas, Oklahoma. He lived overseas most of his life, returning to Northern Virginia with his mother in 1961 after his father’s unexpected death from a heart attack. He had attended Army base schools, a system that had integrated a decade earlier. But this was Wakefield High School in Arlington, “a school with a lot of racial tension, and I could not cope with the hate,” he recalls.
Despite being hospitalized twice in his senior year for ulcers, Patch Adams graduated from Wakefield and enrolled at Sewanee, University of the South. But his uncle, who had served as a surrogate father, committed suicide. Convinced of life’s injustice, Patch tried to kill himself, too. Looking back, he admits he didn’t really want to die. and the attempts were unsuccessful. But he recognized at the time that something was very wrong inside, and so he committed himself to a mental hospital.
There he met people in much worse shape. He spent the time talking with the other patients, and as he grew to know them, he recog
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