Patch Adams Honored in Peru, Calls Bush 'fascist'

[steve2470]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBLDILECCE.html

LIMA, Peru (AP) - A U.S. doctor known for his signature use of "laughter therapy" and social activism used his acceptance speech for a health care award to blast President George Bush and materialism in society.

Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who was the inspiration for the 1998 movie starring Robin Williams, was awarded the first ever Excellence in Health Care Prize presented by the Lima-based Global Organization for Excellence in Health.

The organization is sponsoring an international health care conference in Lima next week.

Adams, 60, with a gray waist-length ponytail streaked blue, expressed "shame for our fascist president," referring to Bush, and told reporters that the only way global health will improve is if "we stop worshipping money."

Adams expressed his disgust with war in Iraq, offering his sympathy for the "unfortunate soldiers who are serving corporations" there.

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[xchrom]

1. wow! all right -- patch -- you nailed it!

congratulations on the award.

[dissent1977]

2. Patch Adams is a true American hero

I met him a couple years back, and the man is absolutely amazing. The movie gave a very sanitized version of him, the real Patch Adams is an outspoken radical and I love him for it.

[VADem11]

3. I met him too

He was amazing back then as well especially when he gave speeches. He was way better than what I had expected after seing the movie.

[Just Me]

4. I went to his "Gesundheit (sp?) Clinic years ago.

He's right about "worshipping money" and "unfortunate soldiers,...serving corporations".

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[wli]

6. he really hit the nail on the head