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Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy de Patch Adams M.D.

Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy: Healing Arts Press

Autor Patch Adams M.D. Cu Maureen Mylander
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 1998

În perioadele de tranziție sau de criză socială, căutăm adesea soluții care să redea latura umană unor sisteme devenite prea rigide. Gesundheit! nu este doar o lectură despre medicină, ci un manifest despre compasiune și puterea comunității de a genera schimbare. Scrisă de Patch Adams M.D., volumul ne invită să regândim sănătatea nu ca pe o tranzacție comercială, ci ca pe un act de serviciu public fundamentat pe bucurie și empatie.

Considerăm că forța acestei cărți rezidă în echilibrul dintre critică și soluție practică. Structura este împărțită strategic: prima parte analizează durerile unui sistem medical aflat în suferință, în timp ce a doua parte oferă o „rețetă” concretă pentru vindecare, documentând istoria Institutului Gesundheit. Abordarea amintește de The Case For Alternative Healthcare de Thomas K. Ockler P. T. prin analiza critică a sistemelor de sănătate aflate în colaps, dar adaugă o dimensiune profund optimistă prin conceptul de „spital caraghios” (silly hospital), unde umorul și imaginația sunt instrumente de tratament la fel de valide ca medicina convențională.

Reținem din parcurgerea textului că Patch Adams M.D. nu se limitează la teorie; cele 17 fotografii incluse și mărturiile colaboratorilor, precum Gareth Branwyn sau Kathy Blomquist, oferă o perspectivă tangibilă asupra modului în care un vis ambițios a devenit realitate. Ritmul este unul narativ, de tip cronică, dar încărcat de o energie irepresibilă care reușește să străpungă fațada business-ului medical modern pentru a ajunge la esența relației medic-pacient.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780892817818
ISBN-10: 089281781X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 17 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Healing Arts Press
Seria Healing Arts Press

Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de o viziune alternativă asupra îngrijirii sănătății. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru profesioniștii din domeniul medical care caută să-și redescopere pasiunea, dar și pentru persoanele implicate în activism social. Câștigați nu doar o perspectivă nouă asupra terapiei prin umor, ci și certitudinea că un sistem bazat pe generozitate și gratuitate este sustenabil, sprijinind totodată cauza Institutului Gesundheit prin achiziție.

Despre autor

Patch Adams M.D. este un medic american, activist social și fondator al Institutului Gesundheit în 1971. Cunoscut la nivel mondial pentru utilizarea umorului în tratarea pacienților, viața sa a inspirat filmul omonim din 1998. Dincolo de nasul de clovn, Adams este un revoluționar care pledează pentru un sistem de sănătate gratuit, unde timpul acordat pacientului și conexiunea umană sunt prioritare. Împreună cu Maureen Mylander, el a sistematizat în acest volum decenii de experiență în medicina complementară și serviciul dedicat comunității, direcționând toate veniturile către construcția unui spital gratuit în West Virginia.

Descriere scurtă

Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. 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 frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine. All author royalties are used to fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in West Virginia. Adams's positive vision and plan for the future is an inspiration for those concerned with the inaccessibility of affordable, quality health care.

Notă biografică

Patch Adams, M.D., is a social revolutionary and one-man show who believes in "horse and buggy" medicine and never charges his patients a cent! In 1971, the author and a few of his colleagues founded the Gesundheit institute in Northern Virginia. During the next twelve years, they operated a home-based family medical practice and managed to treat more than 15,000 people without payment, malpractice insurance, or formal facilities. Patch Adams continues on his life mission to achieve the goal of building a fully functioning, free health care center.

Cuprins


Publisher's Preface

Foreword

Author's Acknowledgments

Co-Author's Preface

Introduction
Part I Bringing Your Vision and Joy to the Practice of Medicine
1 A Health Care System in Pain
2 An Ideal Medical Practice
3 Humor and Healing, or Why We're Building a Silly Hospital
4 Art, Nature, and Imagination
5 Rebuilding Self, Family, Community, World

Huge - What Happens to a Dream Unleashed

Part II A Prescription for Health and Healing
A Chronology of the Gesundheit Institute

6 The Pilot Period
7 The Dream Defined
8 Garth's Story, By Gareth Branwyn
9 Organizing Dreamers, by Blair Voyvodic, M.D.
10 Building the Dream
11 Living on the Land, by Kathy Blomquist
12 Light a Candle: How Can I Help?
13 Passion and Persistence
14 Five Years Have Passed

Bibliography: A Booklover's Search for Understanding and Ideas

Index

Recenzii

The Universal movie soon to be released as "Patch Adams" starring Robin Williams was born as a book called "Gesundheit!" published by a small Vermont house and written by a doctor who dresses as a clown, doesn't charge his patients and told the architect designing his new health center in West Virginia to "make it silly," with trap doors, eyeball-shaped exam rooms and chandeliers to swing on. How did such a project find its way to print? And how did it get to Universal?

According to publisher Ehud Sperling, who started Inner Traditions 23 years ago and is just now enjoying his first Hollywood sale, "Gesundheit!" was written at the suggestion of one Josh Mailman of the philanthropic Mailman family from New York, who met Patch Adams at an ersatz-hippie celebration called the Rainbow Gathering. Mailman thought people would want to read about this 6-foot, 5-inch ponytailed man who called himself "a pie in the face of the American medical establishment"--his goal is free medical care for all--and how he came to hold his unorthodox views. Mailman introduced Adams to Sperling, who found him a coauthor, Maureen Mylander, and a book was born. That was in 1983.

The movie deal took place at least 10 years later, at a meeting of the hip entrepreneur invitation-only Social Ventures Network, where Sperling and Mailman met up by chance with "M*A*S*H" co-star Mike Farrell, who had heard of Patch Adams at the time of "Gesundheit!'s" publication. Farrell wanted to produce the project. He optioned the book via Al Zuckerman's Writer's House for what Zuckerman characterizes now as a steal, made a pitch to Universal and secured the interest of comedy director Mike Shadyac ("Liar, Liar"). "Everyone wanted Williams," reports Sperling, "because it was an ideal vehicle for him, but no one wanted to get their hopes up."

But the clown in Adams appealed to Williams. What about the height discrepancy? "Williams is shorter, but he's very funny," Sperling says. There has been talk at Universal of donating a portion of the box office to Patch Adam's Gesundheit Institute, which is more than $4 million short of the $5 million needed to finish work on the grounds and building, but according to Sperling, nothing has happened yet on that front.
"Patch Adams's book ought to be required reading for patients, doctors, and ordinary mortals of all kinds. It will help us rediscover the true meaning of medical care, and it will help to heal the health care system itself. I have learned from Patch the courage it takes to be different and to reveal your wounds: behind his clownlike persona lies a great deal of wisdom, and it often falls to the court jester to speak the truth that those in power need to hear."
"At last Patch Adams, M.D. has put on paper his vision of patient-centered health care . . . a vision that has inspired so many over the years. Patch's 'crazy dream' is, in reality, the root of what good health care should be all about and too often isn't. Any health care professional who reads Gesundheit! will come away with a renewed sense of mission and joy about what they do."
"If a wacky West Virginia doctor's dream of building a freehospital comes true, he'll have a small Vermont publishing house to thank."
"This book is an enjoyable, easy read that's ideal for those interested in a new view of health."

Descriere

The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine.