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Tom Shadyac. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Patch Adams is determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people.

Based On A True Story. Biography Comedy Drama Romance. Rated PG for some strong language and crude humor. Did you know Edit. Trivia During filming, Robin Williams and the rest of the cast and crew worked closely with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to fulfill the fantasies of several children who were at the time undergoing cancer treatment.

The children appeared with Williams in scenes at the pediatric ward. Goofs Patch says that humans are the only organisms on Earth that kill their own kind. This is not the case. Chimpanzees also do this, for example. In fact, it's much harder to find a species that doesn't kill its own kind than one that does. Quotes Hunter Patch Adams : You treat a disease, you win, you lose.

Crazy credits The Blue Wolf Productions logo after the end credits features a wolf looking to its left. Records Inc. User reviews Review. Top review.

Drama that tried to be funny? I think that the critics missed an important aspect of this movie, as did many viewers who have commented before me. Too many have claimed that this movie was a drama full of comedy, or a drama that was trying to be funny.

Whether the critics think it achieved that goal or not, they missed an important point. The point is that Drama and Comedy are not two seperate things to be combined. A movie shouldn't have to combine the two. Notify me of new posts via email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address:.

Sign me up! The Notwithstanding Blog Musings on medicine, medical school, and miscellany, the title notwithstanding. Home About. In lieu of extended [commentary], I present to you here the highlights: Dr. The horrors! It is a pharmaceutical company diagnosis. Depression is simply a symptom of loneliness. Like this: Like Loading Comments 0 Trackbacks 0 Leave a comment Trackback. No comments yet. No trackbacks yet. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Wonderful medicine.

Perhaps he's gotten so tied up in the "laughter as medicine" concept that he's fallen prey to the altie pitfall of "if it's not working, it's the patient's fault for not trying hard enough" a particularly harsh reaction when we're talking depression.

Or perhaps he's one of those people who is happy all the time, can't understand depression, and doesn't understand that the difference between comedy and tragedy is extremely slight. One other thing about what he said.

How can modern physicians be alive to witness the extinction of the human race? The human race is not extinct until all humans are dead, after all. Maybe Dr. Adams should get together with Tom Cruise to discuss depression? Hey, I know that before I found medication, people telling me stuff like "You're smart, attractive, have a wonderful husband, great children, and a lovely home - what could you possibly be depressed about?

Yep, tell patients they're selfish. It'll save a lot of time and money on treatment, because many of them will kill themselves instead of finding a more compassionate, competent doctor. I know it's a small point, but I'm pretty sure that members of a species cannot live to see the extinction of that species, for reasons that should be obvious.

This clown sounds a bit like those German New Medicine nutjobs. Only instead of "resolving psychological shock", the Key To Everything is to take two chuckles and call him in the morning. Jonathan Dobres: Certainly, depression is oppressive and often as debilitating as any pathogen, but at the same time I don't think anyone would disagree that antidepressants are vastly over-prescribed for the "worried well.

Color me dubious Of course, this is a major step up from the older types MAOIs and tricyclics , whose side-effects could be life-threatening And for all of the above, if you're not depressed, you won't get anything but side-effects from taking them! First, a good clinical assessment was performed, and a working diagnosis was determined. When the initial assessment and plan proved to be ineffective, other solutions were sought.

Medications that were potentially ineffective, of marginal utility, or that might be adding to side effects were stopped. Eventually, the correct medication--in this case an antidepressant--was initiated, and the patient improved. Incidentally, the case above involved a patient admitted for what had appeared, at first glance, to be fully somatic problems. The patient was fortunate to have such competent and professional care, rather than knee-jerk anti-psych reactionaries like Dr.

It is also possible that Dr. Adams is a scientologist, since he seems far more concerned about as yet undocumented overprescription of anti-depressants than the well documented overprescription of antibiotics or the inappropriate use of anti-cholinergic agents in demented patients, to cite two very real medication management issues of great importance.

To advocate that physicians should stop prescribing a particular class of medications altogether, absent extreme and convincing evidence of unacceptable harm that outweighs any benefits or lack of evidence of benefit , goes beyond the realm of unprofessional and crosses over into criminally negligent. Sorry about the previous post. Sometimes the urge to be a smartass can't be resisted. Anyway, I did a bit of checking Wikipedia about Patch Adams.

His bio states that he is a supporter of the antipsychiatry movement. His speech is certainly consistent with it. But antipsychiatry???

Man, that was getting old when I graduated from medical school too many years ago to admit. Besides which, clowns are in fact evil Coulrophobia is sometimes justified, eh? Although I was interested in the claim that an estimated 1 in 7 of us has a fear of clowns.

I remember a lecturer telling us that untreated depression has a higher mortality rate than some some physical illnesses that are universally acknowledged to be 'serious conditions'. He also argued that the co-morbidities of depression are linked to chronic illnesses that have a further viciously debilitating impacts on the quality of life. Who knew it was really selfishness that is responsible for these corrosive effects? I have shed many a tear over the recent events that have occured at Vanderbilt.

I witnessed the opening of a CAM center there and have caught wind of the scourge of subsequent speakers and programs that have sprung forth because of it. Adams is an idiot. The movie about him was a joke, just not a funny one. I wish I had been there for his speech. The guy's an ass. I was shocked. If you're my friend, you can probably grab my ass and I'll just laugh. If I don't know you I turned to the guy and said, "Excuse me, you're a psychotherapist, aren't you?