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Say, is the birth date "December 29, 1945" correct for Dr. Adams? The Internet Movie Database, as well as biographies online, place it on May 28 of that year.

we can use the informations about Patch Adams for Wikipedia.

From: "Shayne Yates" <sryates@gcom.net.au> To: "Hotmail" <ffrritz@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Info about Patch Adams Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:25:18 +1100

That's fine Fritz

Go right ahead.

Shayne

Patricia Cameron-Hill & Shayne Yates Seminars Authors of "You won't die laughing" & "Doctor, I feel funny" www.chy.com.au shayne@docfunny.com Int + 61 + 3 + 5472 1976 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Hotmail > To: shayne@docfunny.com > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 1:43 AM > Subject: Info about Patch Adams > > > Hello ! > > I copied informations of your webpage about Patch Adams >(http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm) to the free encyclopedia >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Adams > If you do not like me to do this, please let me know. I will delete this >text instantly. > > Best regards, > > Fritz

1 Patch the serial killer
2 This entry is biased!
3 Where is the bias
4 This Article Needs Some Photos
5 Medical training

[edit] Patch the serial killer

okay i went to this website http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=patchadams and the maker of the article said that patch adams is a serial killer... is it true? "Patch commits himself to because he's a crazed serial killer (they forgot to mention that part in the movie)." well is it true... or is he juz making up an exaggerative theory. he didn't even mention the source Darkroom Danny 10:26, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

No, he's just joking. Roy Harmon 17:17, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This entry is biased!

So just who in the heck is this David Oaks, and where does he get off saying 'President Bush wants to test all Americans for "mental illness"? How does he know this? Has President Bush ever suggested such a thing? Sounds kindof Orwellian--and very un-Bush-like. I suspect David Oaks is totally fabricating this, pulling kook conspiracy theories out of his @ss.

And then we've got Adams' response: "volunteering to screen President Bush, 'He needs a lot of help. I'll see him for free.'" Ha ha. Real funny! Does this sort of thing belong in an encyclopedia entry?!? I suspect it was included here as a deliberate, cheap swipe at the president.

This section of the article serves as further evidence to me that Wikipedia is operated (and mostly contributed to) by outta-touch Leftwing socialist whackos!

see this entry on Bush's "very un-Bush-like plan".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Freedom_Initiative

We'll look into getting some out-of-touch rightwing wackos to even things out as soon as they leave office. But in all seriousness if you really think the article is imbalanced feel free to edit it and balance it out, include a link to a site or excerpt from an article (quote sources also please) that offers a counterpoint to his statements. A neutral point of view is what we are going for here and if you have information that isn't covered please contribute. As to weather something should be included or not I believe it should be. Whatever he has said of note, weather it be serious or not, true or false, left wing or right wing is irrelevant. Just because he is critical of the current US president does not mean the things he has said do not deserve mention in this article. A balanced point of view and a nurtured point of view are not one and the same and we are not looking for the latter. If he had said the same thing about former president Clinton would you still have issue with his statement? Isn't that letting your own bias colour the nature of the article?

Boy, they only come out at night, don't they.

Anyhow, film cricket Jim Emerson makes the following illuminating description of Patch Adams in his blog on Roger Ebert's website.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060416/SCANNERS/60416001

a fascistic "holistic healer," a stern, authoritarian autocrat with a messianic complex -- everybody's nightmare of a medical sociopath with delusions of grandeur. He claims that laughter is the best medicine, but comes across -- in public, at least -- as utterly humorless, angry, and interested in nothing but himself. He doesn't know how to listen, only to grandstand and boast and berate anyone and everyone who fails to pay sufficient obeisance to his mammoth ego, his self-proclaimed selflessness, and his inerrant wonderfulness. It's as if John Wayne Gacy thought he was the Dalai Lama.

I met Patch Adams at a wedding in Wheeling, West VA and I have to say at least some of that description rings true. He was great with the children but utterly disrespectful towards everyone else, showing up wearing a silk shirt and parachute pants, clashing with the suits and ties of all the other men. Maybe it's only a social norm, but using a wedding as a platform to deviate from the norm to make a point comes across as a very selfish gesture. Famous or not, there is no way to end up on the bad side of a family of Irish Catholics than to attend a wedding out of dress. After he spoke at the pulpet, he left the church before the end of the mass. Believe me, Im no devout Catholic, but I at least know how to show respect at a religious service.

[edit] Where is the bias

I don't think the article should be marked, because it doesn't make any statement regarding Patch's honesty or suitability/skills as a doctor, it just talks about known facts. If there are indeed opposed views about his work, they should be mentioned, quoting sources, and end of story. People, please try to slowly and carefully read and understand what a NPOV is.

 well it is true i think he desrve it

[edit] This Article Needs Some Photos

OK this article has my interest. Apparently Hunter "Patch" Adams also is credited in the new documentary on military brats-- "Brats: Our Journey Home". So I'd like to see a photo somewhere to see who this guy is. Also does he appear in the Brats documentary or did he help out in some other way?

Sean7phil 17:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)