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nized a recurrent theme: they were alone.
Dr. Adams left the hospital knowing that he could make a difference and believing that difference would come in the field of medicine. He attended George Washington University as an undergraduate. The Medical College of Virginia thought he showed such promise that he was invited to enter medical school at the end of his junior year. “I was smart. I was particularly smart in memorizing, so medical school wasn’t hard for me,” Dr. Adams recalls. “I spent a lot of time with patients.
In medical school, he met Lynda Edquist, who was a volunteer at an adolescent medicine unit. (They would later marry at a grand pageant of a wedding costume ball to which hundreds of guests came dressed in medieval gowrns and doublets.)
In his senior year at MCV, he wTote the first plans for the Gesundheit Institute, picking the name mostly because it makes people laugh. “But gesundheit also means wellness in German - which is the current medical buzzword - and that’s at the root of what wre do,” Dr. Adams explains. “Also, people use it to mean ‘God bless you,’ which fits our notion of the importance of faith to health."
In planning the Gesundheit Institute, Patch and Lynda saw four major issues that needed to be addressed: the cost of health care, the dehumanization of care, maL practice, and third-party insurance. “It was easy to address them: Don’t charge money, see the ideal doctorpatient relationship as a friendship, don’t carry malpractice insurance, and don’t accept third-party insurance,” Dr. Adams recalls.
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