Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society Through Physician Service,

Meet Patch Adams, MD, a social revolutionary who has devoted his life to giving away health care. Doctor, clown, man of many hats, Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice in West Virginia that has treated more than 15,000 people for free. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his freuqent lectures and performaces at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the business-like facade of the medical industry to address how the need for a caring relationship between doctor and patient is at the heart of true medicine.