1. Citações
  2. Autores
  3. Patch Adams

Frases de Patch Adams

Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams é um médico norte-americano, famoso por sua metodologia inusitada no tratamento de enfermos. É formado pela Virginia Medical University, e o fundador do Instituto Gesundheit, em 1971. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Maio 1945   •   Outros nomes P. Adams
Patch Adams photo
Patch Adams: 10   citações 0   Curtidas

Patch Adams: Frases em inglês

“People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtw5nzgYpA
Contexto: You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.

“I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)

“Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

Fonte: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 10

“Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

Fonte: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 129

“I'll give you an example — in Russia most of the hospitals don't have any pain medicine, they don't have any money. So if you're with kids with cancer, they can have metastases to the bone; which some say is the worst pain a human can experience. So a mother can be in a room with a child who hasn't stopped screaming in five months. …85% of the time I walk in there as a clown they'll stop screaming.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)

“I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016)
Contexto: Any can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.

“I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

Fonte: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 121

“Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

Fonte: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 58

“The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness."”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

"Conferenza con Patch Adams a Reggio Emilia" arcoiris tv (27 March 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goppIcodJo

“I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.”

Help us translate this quote
Patch Adams

Fonte: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. xi