How to Win Every Time

Last night I watched the movie “Patch Adams” for probably the 4th time.  This is the one where Robin Williams plays a medical student who gets crosswise with the establishment bureaucrats in the school system with his comedic antics aimed at “treating” patients.    

In his testimony before the board, which was charged with determining his fitness to become a doctor, Patch said, “If you treat the illness, you sometimes win and sometimes lose.  If you treat the patient, you ALWAYS win.”

Don't you just love that and yearn for that from your doctor?  

In the book “Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing”, the authors use janitors, teachers, doctors, and lawyers as examples of people who know how to “treat the patient”. 

Probably everybody knows this by now, but the movie was about a real person – his picture shown here, and the link to his website is below.  Take a look and see if his work and mission don't tickle your inspiration bone:

The Gesundheit! Institute 

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