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25-10-2005, 02:57 AM
Dr. Patch Adams
Who is the real Patch Adams? (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#1)
The Washington Movie première (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#2)
Patch Adams in Australia and New Zealand (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#3)
Humour in Hospitals (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#4)
Link to News Item (http://www.chy.com.au/news/19990418.htm)
Who Is The Real Patch Adams?
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Patch Adams graduated as a medical doctor in 1971, convinced of the powerful connection between environment and wellness. He holds the belief that the health of an individual cannot be separated from the health of the family, community and the world. In consequence, Patch and some friends founded the Gesundheit Institute, which ran as a free community hospital for 12 years.
The new-look Gesundheit Institute is a free, full-scale hospital and health care, eco-community which is now being built in West Virginia. It will have the healing arts working together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. Wellness will be achieved by integrating medicine with performing arts, crafts, nature, agriculture, recreation, friendship and fun. Gesundheit will be a model "happy" hospital. It will stimulate caregivers and hospitals around the world to develop improved approaches to health care.
Patch Adams is more than a doctor. He is a social activist, citizen diplomat, professional clown, performer and author. For example, each year he organises a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to Russia as clowns, to bring hope and joy to orphans, patients and the people. In 1998 he also visited Bosnia.
The Cameron-Hill And Yates Connection
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patandpat1.jpg
Our initial interest in improving hospitals came from working as a nurse and doctor. It was clear to us that aspects of hospital life compromised healing rather than promoting health. In 1984 we started presenting seminars on how to humanise hospitals and have more fun at work. Imagine our surprise and delight, when in 1996, we learned about a "clown doctor" called Patch Adams.
Top (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#Top)
The Washington Première Of Patch Adams (the Movie)
http://www.chy.com.au/images/robin1a.jpg
An invitation to the première fund-raising screening in Washington was too hard to resist. The chance to see Patch again, meet Robin Williams, Tom Shadyac the director and more importantly the Gesundheit volunteer team and see the film - had us winging the 20 hour flight to the United States. We weren’t disappointed, it was a fun filled evening. We were given the red carpet treatment at the theatre, popcorn, clown noses and a whoopie cushion.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/robin2a.jpg[/url]
Patch asked that the dress for the occasion be ‘outrageous’ and we were! Themes, wigs, way-out designs and clowns. We were a crowd brimming with expectation and high spirits as we waited for the film to begin. And we weren’t disappointed...we laughed and cheered and cried...and left optimistic and enthused ready to enjoy the hotdogs and ice-cream awaiting us at the post screening party.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch1.jpg
Christmas Day - the day associated with giving was the first general screening day for the movie Patch Adams. This feel-good movie deserves to be the big hit that it is. Robin Williams plays Patch Adams as a non-conformist medical student on staff in a hospital who dares to challenge the system to bring humour and hope to his patients - and he wins (gets away with it).
Patch Adams in the movie is not the only winner. The movie popularises the joy of service and healing through humour. We predict this will have a major impact on health care throughout the world and inspire millions of people to discover for themselves what that joy of service feels like!
Patch Adams (the real one) is hopeful that the needed funds to complete and run the Gesundheit Institute will be forthcoming once people see the movie. To date, this seems to be happening.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/pandacc1.jpg
[url="http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#Top"]Top (http://www.chy.com.au/images/robin2a.jpg) Watch Adams In Australia And New Zealand
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch2a.jpg
We knew Patch Adams would bring fresh insight, experience and inspiration to the health care workers we knew, so in 1997 we invited him to tour Australia and New Zealand.
The person who arrived, was indeed a clown doctor, but the clown character was used by Patch to treat what he describes as great diseases of our world - boredom and loneliness.
It was on this tour that we saw, and really knew for the first time Patch’s belief that "Giving is the highest drug in the world." Not only in what Patch had to say, but in his own gratitude for the chance to speak in seminars and clown in health care facilities.
Top (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#Top)
Humour In Hospitals (by Patricia Cameron-Hill & Dr Shayne Yates)
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch4a.jpg
As she waited for the trolley to take her to the operating theatre to have radical surgery that would change her life forever, the woman was thinking her life was over. There was nothing for her to live for now. But then she saw a bunch of balloons coming towards her, in fact, they were coming for her. Attached to the trolley to take her to the operating theatre was a big bunch of balloons, a smiling porter and a little bear dressed in operating theatre uniform sitting on the trolley. At that moment, the woman said she realised that there would be a life for her after surgery. The porter went on to explain that the balloons were to celebrate here trip to the operating theatre and her road to recovery.
This is a true story from a women’s hospital in Melbourne in 1984. It is just one of the many creative ways staff are using humour to bring hope and healing to patients in hospital. Humour helps because smiling and laughing triggers the secretions of morphine-like chemicals known as endorphins. Endorphins strengthen the immune system (responsible for fighting disease and enhancing recovery), reduce pain, and relaxes the body. Humour also works because it distracts people from their worries and pain and it restores perspective. Humour doesn’t alter the situation, but it helps you to cope.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch3a.jpg
How you can bring more humour and joy to your hospital
No one has a monopoly on humour. If you’re a patient, or visitor or health care worker, there are many ways you can lighten the hospital experience.
1. Humour CD’s and Tapes: This is an easy way to access comedians, comedy shows and uplifting stories. All the patient needs is a walkman and they can listen to them at any time, especially the long night hours.
One of the healthiest things you can have up your sleeve is a funny bone.
2. Special Awards: Make your own ‘Bravey Award’ or fun recognition for the patient. We give out badges ‘Under Repair Please Handle With Care’.
Any place that serves breakfast in bed can’t be all that bad.
3. Funny Videos: If there is a VCR facility you’re in business. Our ‘Humorobics’ video is very popular with patients, their visitors and the staff. Hold regular screenings.
My mother had a below-knee amputation as a result of having diabetes and smoking all of her life. When she was regaining consciousness in Recovery Unit, I smiled at her and said ‘Well mum, how does it feel to have one leg in the grave?’ She laughed out loud. Till the day she died, she told that story to her friends and each time, she laughed again. (Patch Adams)
4. Humour Board: Easy to do, just invite everyone to pin up their cartoons, funny stories, jokes etc.
Why do surgeons make great comedians? Because they always leave you in stitches.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch6a.jpg
5. Dress Ups: Everyone can do this. Patients, visitors and staff all get involved to celebrate a special day such as Valentine’s, Melbourne Cup, St Patrick’s Day, etc. Or more simply, a hat day, scarf day or similar.
In case you’ve never seen a hospital gown, the front is rated G and the back is rated R! (Give patients a safety pin on a card that reads ‘For Hospital Gown Gap-osis.)
6. Send cartoons: Send these to patients in the mail, or add them to meal trays during the day. Put them on patient information sheets.
Psychiatrist's advertisement: ‘Satisfaction guaranteed, or your mania back."
7. Brighten the bed area: Hang mobiles, photos of family, posters etc.
A hypochondriac is a person who can read the doctor’s prescription.
8. Invite Clowns and Performers: There are lots of people who would be prepared to visit hospitals and entertain the sick. Invite them in.
Sign on a maternity ward door: PUSH PUSH PUSH
If you want to get serious about laughter in hospitals, set up a fun room or laughter rooms - ask us for ideas.
If you want a big list of ideas brainstormed by nurses for humanising their hospital - ask us!
Top (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#Top)
Patricia Cameron-Hill & Shayne
Yates
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Who is the real Patch Adams? (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#1)
The Washington Movie première (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#2)
Patch Adams in Australia and New Zealand (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#3)
Humour in Hospitals (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#4)
Link to News Item (http://www.chy.com.au/news/19990418.htm)
Who Is The Real Patch Adams?
http://www.chy.com.au/images/pandr1.jpg
Patch Adams graduated as a medical doctor in 1971, convinced of the powerful connection between environment and wellness. He holds the belief that the health of an individual cannot be separated from the health of the family, community and the world. In consequence, Patch and some friends founded the Gesundheit Institute, which ran as a free community hospital for 12 years.
The new-look Gesundheit Institute is a free, full-scale hospital and health care, eco-community which is now being built in West Virginia. It will have the healing arts working together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. Wellness will be achieved by integrating medicine with performing arts, crafts, nature, agriculture, recreation, friendship and fun. Gesundheit will be a model "happy" hospital. It will stimulate caregivers and hospitals around the world to develop improved approaches to health care.
Patch Adams is more than a doctor. He is a social activist, citizen diplomat, professional clown, performer and author. For example, each year he organises a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to Russia as clowns, to bring hope and joy to orphans, patients and the people. In 1998 he also visited Bosnia.
The Cameron-Hill And Yates Connection
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patandpat1.jpg
Our initial interest in improving hospitals came from working as a nurse and doctor. It was clear to us that aspects of hospital life compromised healing rather than promoting health. In 1984 we started presenting seminars on how to humanise hospitals and have more fun at work. Imagine our surprise and delight, when in 1996, we learned about a "clown doctor" called Patch Adams.
Top (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#Top)
The Washington Première Of Patch Adams (the Movie)
http://www.chy.com.au/images/robin1a.jpg
An invitation to the première fund-raising screening in Washington was too hard to resist. The chance to see Patch again, meet Robin Williams, Tom Shadyac the director and more importantly the Gesundheit volunteer team and see the film - had us winging the 20 hour flight to the United States. We weren’t disappointed, it was a fun filled evening. We were given the red carpet treatment at the theatre, popcorn, clown noses and a whoopie cushion.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/robin2a.jpg[/url]
Patch asked that the dress for the occasion be ‘outrageous’ and we were! Themes, wigs, way-out designs and clowns. We were a crowd brimming with expectation and high spirits as we waited for the film to begin. And we weren’t disappointed...we laughed and cheered and cried...and left optimistic and enthused ready to enjoy the hotdogs and ice-cream awaiting us at the post screening party.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch1.jpg
Christmas Day - the day associated with giving was the first general screening day for the movie Patch Adams. This feel-good movie deserves to be the big hit that it is. Robin Williams plays Patch Adams as a non-conformist medical student on staff in a hospital who dares to challenge the system to bring humour and hope to his patients - and he wins (gets away with it).
Patch Adams in the movie is not the only winner. The movie popularises the joy of service and healing through humour. We predict this will have a major impact on health care throughout the world and inspire millions of people to discover for themselves what that joy of service feels like!
Patch Adams (the real one) is hopeful that the needed funds to complete and run the Gesundheit Institute will be forthcoming once people see the movie. To date, this seems to be happening.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/pandacc1.jpg
[url="http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#Top"]Top (http://www.chy.com.au/images/robin2a.jpg) Watch Adams In Australia And New Zealand
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch2a.jpg
We knew Patch Adams would bring fresh insight, experience and inspiration to the health care workers we knew, so in 1997 we invited him to tour Australia and New Zealand.
The person who arrived, was indeed a clown doctor, but the clown character was used by Patch to treat what he describes as great diseases of our world - boredom and loneliness.
It was on this tour that we saw, and really knew for the first time Patch’s belief that "Giving is the highest drug in the world." Not only in what Patch had to say, but in his own gratitude for the chance to speak in seminars and clown in health care facilities.
Top (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#Top)
Humour In Hospitals (by Patricia Cameron-Hill & Dr Shayne Yates)
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch4a.jpg
As she waited for the trolley to take her to the operating theatre to have radical surgery that would change her life forever, the woman was thinking her life was over. There was nothing for her to live for now. But then she saw a bunch of balloons coming towards her, in fact, they were coming for her. Attached to the trolley to take her to the operating theatre was a big bunch of balloons, a smiling porter and a little bear dressed in operating theatre uniform sitting on the trolley. At that moment, the woman said she realised that there would be a life for her after surgery. The porter went on to explain that the balloons were to celebrate here trip to the operating theatre and her road to recovery.
This is a true story from a women’s hospital in Melbourne in 1984. It is just one of the many creative ways staff are using humour to bring hope and healing to patients in hospital. Humour helps because smiling and laughing triggers the secretions of morphine-like chemicals known as endorphins. Endorphins strengthen the immune system (responsible for fighting disease and enhancing recovery), reduce pain, and relaxes the body. Humour also works because it distracts people from their worries and pain and it restores perspective. Humour doesn’t alter the situation, but it helps you to cope.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch3a.jpg
How you can bring more humour and joy to your hospital
No one has a monopoly on humour. If you’re a patient, or visitor or health care worker, there are many ways you can lighten the hospital experience.
1. Humour CD’s and Tapes: This is an easy way to access comedians, comedy shows and uplifting stories. All the patient needs is a walkman and they can listen to them at any time, especially the long night hours.
One of the healthiest things you can have up your sleeve is a funny bone.
2. Special Awards: Make your own ‘Bravey Award’ or fun recognition for the patient. We give out badges ‘Under Repair Please Handle With Care’.
Any place that serves breakfast in bed can’t be all that bad.
3. Funny Videos: If there is a VCR facility you’re in business. Our ‘Humorobics’ video is very popular with patients, their visitors and the staff. Hold regular screenings.
My mother had a below-knee amputation as a result of having diabetes and smoking all of her life. When she was regaining consciousness in Recovery Unit, I smiled at her and said ‘Well mum, how does it feel to have one leg in the grave?’ She laughed out loud. Till the day she died, she told that story to her friends and each time, she laughed again. (Patch Adams)
4. Humour Board: Easy to do, just invite everyone to pin up their cartoons, funny stories, jokes etc.
Why do surgeons make great comedians? Because they always leave you in stitches.
http://www.chy.com.au/images/patch6a.jpg
5. Dress Ups: Everyone can do this. Patients, visitors and staff all get involved to celebrate a special day such as Valentine’s, Melbourne Cup, St Patrick’s Day, etc. Or more simply, a hat day, scarf day or similar.
In case you’ve never seen a hospital gown, the front is rated G and the back is rated R! (Give patients a safety pin on a card that reads ‘For Hospital Gown Gap-osis.)
6. Send cartoons: Send these to patients in the mail, or add them to meal trays during the day. Put them on patient information sheets.
Psychiatrist's advertisement: ‘Satisfaction guaranteed, or your mania back."
7. Brighten the bed area: Hang mobiles, photos of family, posters etc.
A hypochondriac is a person who can read the doctor’s prescription.
8. Invite Clowns and Performers: There are lots of people who would be prepared to visit hospitals and entertain the sick. Invite them in.
Sign on a maternity ward door: PUSH PUSH PUSH
If you want to get serious about laughter in hospitals, set up a fun room or laughter rooms - ask us for ideas.
If you want a big list of ideas brainstormed by nurses for humanising their hospital - ask us!
Top (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm#Top)
Patricia Cameron-Hill & Shayne
Yates
Contact Us (http://www.chy.com.au/contact.htm) <!-- finish -->
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Store (http://www.chy.com.au/store.htm) | News Update! (http://www.chy.com.au/news.htm) | Contact Us (http://www.chy.com.au/contact.htm) | Links (http://www.chy.com.au/links.htm) | Special Feature (http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm) Patricia Cameron-Hill and Dr. Shayne Yates - Stress, Humour and Health
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