Patch Adams Reflection

In the movie Patch Adams, directed by Tom Shadyac a young man named Hunter Adams admits himself into a psychiatric hospital. While he is there he learns that he has a passion for helping people with humor. He also gets the nickname Patch while there when talking to a patient. The movie shows that doctors should not be walking around the hospitals like they are above everyone else. That doctors should befriend the nurses and focus on patients and not the disease. When Patch Adams was in the psychiatric hospital he learned to look past the problem to find the solution. There has many times in my life when I have focused too much on the problem and have not looked past it to find the solution. The most recent time was this year when I was …show more content…
It was when Patch was in court in front of the medical board trying to be able to get the right to graduate. His friend Truman stumbles into the courtroom and there is a long line of children and their parents behind him walking into the courtroom. All of the kids walk in and turn around and put red rubber ball on over their noses. At the beginning of the movie Patch walks into the room where the children where in the hospital and did everything he could to get them to all laugh. One of the things that he did has put a red rubber ball over his nose. It stuck out to me because when Patch needed support the kids came to him in his time of need and got him to laugh just like what he did for them. The movie Patch Adams is a great movie and teaches an even greater lesson of looking past the problem to reach the solution. It seems like a simple task but many people get caught on the problem and can not reach the solution. It is also a very good lesson for people going into the medical field because it shows medical professionals that to truly help a patient you have to look past the problem which is the disease to see the solution. In other words treat the person to treat the