He sounds like he’s gone off the deep end:
Sporting partially blue hair with a non-matching tie and accompanying outfit, the founder of the Gesundheit! Institute called President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney “mass murderers,” predicted VUSM’s doctors-in-training will live to see the extinction of the human race and advised the physicians-in-training to withhold prescribing psychotropic medications for mental illness patients.“Our government is worse than Hitler because they are making decisions that can make us extinct,” Adams said.
“We need to find a way to not put murderous people in charge “¦ they are heinous, they are mass murderers. They even told us to call it Shock and Awe.”
Adams, who publicly offered to examine Bush for mental illness in 2004, said he likes to spend at least four hours with a new patient during their first meeting.
(via Notes from Dr. RW)
Related posts:
- Patch Adams fans rejoice: Medical clowning is now a degree
- Cho Seung-Hui: The link between depression and murder
- Virginia Tech: When should patients’ rights be sacrificed?
- Mental illness and voting
- Karl Rove responds to Hillary’s health plan
- Talking about mental illness
- Overdosing on the fentanyl patch
KevinMD.com on Facebook
{ 3 comments }
Another idiot with a soapbox. Just happens to have the letters “MD” after his name. Level of credibility – equivalent to that of a Susanne Sommers or Streisand. One wonders how the clinicians will chafe under the yoke of Democratic leadership.
Perhaps it’s just the movie curse or something. Seems that once an otherwise unkown gets hollywooded, they either go crazy (as this man may now be) or they’re exposed as a total fraud (Erin Brockovich). Not sure why that is, but it’s worth considering.
Patch came to my medical school once where I heard him speak. That was pre-Hollywood, but even then he was definitely into the circus clown approach. There wasn’t so much of the dark endgame message, though, but you could see without any imagining that he was pretty far out of the mainstream. He was living in West Virginia then, but his mindset was more like Berkeley, ca. 1970, very much an advocate of a lifestyle that would have been in the outer orbit of the Whole Earth circle. He believed patients should be residents, and yes, spent a great deal of time with them.
The strangeness makes him drift off-message; that, or he has a different message. It is a shame he discourages psychopharmacology. There is a great deal of suffering relieved by those drugs, even if they aren’t perfect.
Comments on this entry are closed.