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From: The Progressive  |  Date: 10/1/1993

Sometimes Dr. Patch Adams wears a mask and a clown costume. He looks for inspiration to Aristophanes and Shakespeare, the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges. He practices medicine at the Gesundheit Institute, which he describes as a "silly hospital" that charges no fees and accepts no third-party (insurance) payments. Often his patients are his overnight guests. In Gesundheit! he describes and explains these and other aspects of his highly unorthodox practice, arguing that the ...

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