Hunter Patch Adams: Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
Hunter Patch Adams: We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.
Arthur Mendelson: You're focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem.
Arthur Mendelson: See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity of laziness. See the whole world anew each day!
Hunter Patch Adams: What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
Hunter Patch Adams: I wanted to become a doctor so I could serve others. And because of that, I've lost everything. But I've also gained everything.
Hunter Patch Adams: Now you have the ability to keep me from graduating. You can keep me from getting the title and the white coat. But you can't control my spirit, gentlemen. You can't keep me from learning, you can 't keep me from studying. So you have a choice: you can have me as a professional colleague, passionate, or you can have me as an outspoken outsider, still adament. Either way I'll probably still be viewed as a thorn. But I promise you one thing: I am a thorn that will not go away
Charlie: Is that all?
Hunter Patch Adams: I hope not, sir.
Hunter Patch Adams: Sir, I want to be a doctor with all my heart.
Arthur Mendelson: How many fingers do you see?
Hunter Patch Adams: Four.
Arthur Mendelson: No no! Look beyond the fingers! Now tell me how many you see.
Hunter Patch Adams: I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly without complexities or pride. I love you becasue I know no other way than this. So close that you r hand, on my chest, is my hand. So close, that when you close your eyes, I fall asleep.
Hunter Patch Adams:
[standing on the edge of a cliff contemplating suicide. He talks to God.]
So what now, huh? What do you want from me?
[looks down over cliff, a rock tumbles off]
Yeah, I could do it. We both know you wouldn't stop me. So answer me please. Tell me what you're doing. Okay, let's look at the logic. YOu creat man. Man suffers enormous amounts of pain. Main dies. Maybe you should have had just a few more brainstorming sessions prior to creation. You rested on the seventh day. Maybe you should've spent that day on compassion.
[looks down over the cliff again]
You know what? You're not worth it. [walks away from the cliff]
Hunter Patch Adams: Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."
Bill Davis: To check out.
Hunter Patch Adams : To shuffle off this mortal coil.
Bill Davis: To head for the happy hunting ground.
Hunter Patch Adams: To blink for an exceptionally long period of time.
Bill Davis: To find oneself without breath.
Hunter Patch Adams: To be the incredible decaying man.
Bill Davis: Worm buffet.
Hunter Patch Adams: Kick the bucket.
Bill Davis: Buy the farm.
Hunter Patch Adams: Take the cab.
Bill Davis: Cash in your chips.
Hunter Patch Adams: [while in group session] Beanie... which way is Heaven?
Trevor Beene: [who is in a catatonic state, keeps his arm raise, pointing upwards]
Hunter Patch Adams: [Patch is trying to convince Rudy not to be afraid of squirrels] What could they want? Your nuts?
Hunter Patch Adams: You don't understand, I'm leaving.
Dr. Titan: Hunter, if you leave, my records will say AMA, you left against medical advice.
Hunter Patch Adams: And Mine will say IDGARA, I don't give a rat's ass. And my name is Patch.
Corinne Fisher: Lesbian, airhead, ballbuster, whichever one of these disgusts you the most, take your pick. Please spread the word: I'm not here to date. I'm not here to flirt. I'm here to study.
Truman: I thought only I could repel women with that kind of raw efficiency.
Hunter Patch Adams: [imitating a skeleton] I have a boner. Wait, I AM a boner.
Joletta: [Joletta has just met Patch] Look here, Judy , another future boss.
Hunter Patch Adams: Oh, I wouldn't look at it like that.
Joletta: You may think I'm exaggerating, but in another five years you'll be so full of yourself you'll have to hang a cup out your ass just to catch the excess.
Hunter Patch Adams: I'm really starting to love the back of your head.
[while Patch is driving]
Corinne Fisher: When can I open my eyes?
Hunter Patch Adams: As soon as I open mine.
Arthur Mendelson: [Mr. Mendelson's attorney is expressing concern over him using his land for Patch's free medical clinic] You learn anything about proctology yet Patch ? Good, take care of this asshole for me, will ya?
Dean Walcott: Our job is to rigorously and ruthlessly train the humanity out of you and make you into something better. We're gonna make doctors out of you.
Hunter Patch Adams : We can head on down to the maternity ward. You know those chicks putout.
Sourced:
Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his "god" and the love of other people, God's spirit.
--"Patch Adams challenges audience. "Joplin Independent (2004-05-05).
I'll give you an example-in Russia most of the hospitals don't have any pain medicine, they don't have any money. So if you're with kids with cancer, they can have metastases to the bone; which some say is the worst pain a human can experience. So a mother can be in a room with a child who hasn't stopped screaming in five months. ...85% of the time I walk in there as a clown they'll stop screaming."
--"Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams. "Roda Viva-Entrevista (PA?) (2007-Nov-13).
I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.
"Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams."Roda Viva-Entrevista (PA?) (2007-Nov-13).
The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it'depression' than calling it'loneliness.'
_"Conferenza con Patch Adams a Reggio Emilia." arcoiris tv (2008-Mar-27).
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