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Gesundheit!

By: Patch Adams Maureen Mylander
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
ISBN: 089281781X
ISBN-13: 9780892817818
Released: 18 Aug 1998
RRP: £11.99
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Creating postive images in todays society - By: K. P. Rose, 24 Oct 2002
This book is a must for Everyone. Read it & see. It may make you change your life.

We were so taken with the concepts in the book that we have taken, nearly alll of these ideals & intergrated them into our own Wellness programme. It is not the same as the Gesundheit model, as we work in a different area to Patch & no 2 bodies can ever be alike. Patch has 20 years head start on us in finding his way, we are just starting out on the journey.

Patch Adams has created a set ideals that we should alll live by. You may not feel comfortable with the way he & those at Geshundheit choose to express them but the underlying principles are valid & extremely revloutionary which is why some people may feel unsettled by the book.

Patch says that is is better to give than to always take. We as a society are used to taking & when someone comes along & tells us the opposite, then we may begin to feel unsettled, even if thier is a powerful truth in what is being said.

You may find some of the ideas & ideals expressed as some reviewers put it very 'woodstockish', this could put you off. The point of the book is not the lovey woodstocky ideals, this is the way that Patch & Gesundheit have chosen to express these ideals. Patch is saying we must find our own gesundheit, our own way of having fun, being creative but caring for the world we live in.

Patch is so true when he says we need more postive images in the media that enhance postive thinking, respect, love & creativity for ourselves & those we interact with.

READ IT AND SEE.

Fascinating man. - By: , 20 Aug 2000
As someone with absolutely no connection with the medical profession I was fascinated - even inspired - by the film of Patch Adams. The book gives a lot more insight into the thinking & philosophy behind the man. Despite what others seem to think of as 60's woodstock stuff, every thing the guy says rings true. Society has a lot to learn from this man, not just the medical profession. Friendship, family, community, trust, fun, ... it makes you wonder where we lost it along the way. If these things make you a hippy, count me in - they make life work. I'd have Patch as my doctor any day over some mechanistic presciptive doctor who doesn't CARE about ME. Read the book, apply the principles, reap the benefits ... life just becomes more FUN!
don't knock it till you've tried it - By: , 01 Aug 1999
READ THE BOOK, WATCH THE MOVIE AND THEN TRY THIS SIMPLE TEST ;

on a day when you have pain, place yourself into a situation that you know will make you earnestly laugh AND THEN TRY TO FEEL THE PAIN WHEN YOUR LAUGHING...Patch Adams has the right idea.

Should be a textbook for Health Care students. - By: , 18 Feb 1999
This book is a must-read for alll aspiring (and current) Health Care Professionals. If you don't agree with his political views, you hafta LOVE his methods of patient relations. If alll Health professionals would take his methods to heart, we could put the "care" back into healthcare.
Not what the synopsis says it is! - By: , 02 Feb 1999
Except for a brief introduction, this is not the "hilarious story of Patch Adams" as the synopsis says. It is a long commentary on the benefits of communal living & of caring medical treatment. How many ways can you say "care about your patients"? I found it repetative uninteresting after a short time. **** This is my second submittal. Are you going to post it?? ****