![]() ![]() ![]() "We never wanted you to think you owed something, rather that you belong to something called community," says Adams.ĭesigns unveiled at a community forum show the clinic will include space for preventative and primary care, meeting rooms, a medical library, plus outdoor space for an orchard and a garden. So using the model he used in the past for his now-defunct Gesundheit Institute, the Patch Adams Clinics will be free for the poor and the rich alike. The first one is tentatively to go on a 4.9 acre plot on the 17-hundred block of West Allegheny Avenue in North Philadelphia.Īdams believes medicine has become a greedy business. The political activitist, now 68, is in Philadelphia to help raise awareness about a movement to open unique health clinics nationwide. Today, we met up with the real Patch Adams. Who can forget Robin Williams portraying the fun-loving, inspirational doctor in the 1998 blockbuster movie 'Patch Adams.'
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