In the video "Patch Adams" we are pushed to see with the eyes of god, viewing people with no distrust or contempt. Patch grew up with a somewhat problematic past, and this rendered him suicidal. His father died when he was nine, and he never really recovered. He is put into a psychological ward, and soon realizes that as he makes other patients happy, he becomes happy. In one scene he helps a man who …
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…dealing with personal, social, and emotional problems. Like Patch states early on in the movie, "treat the patient as well as the disease." Carin tells his during an argument "Passion doesn't make doctors." This movie uncovers some of the flaws of medicine. I was really moved by this movie, and I believe that everybody should watch this movie. If hospitals followed this new set of rules that patch created, many more people would be saved.