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Monday, January 11, 1999
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Associated Press mg power of hurt
Adams insists
HILLSBORO, W.Va. ? The hit Robin n0W; a hospital w
Williams movie "Patch Adams" ends "It's \[\^e the
on a feel-good note, with the audience Capra movies: W
told that construction of a free hospi- get the busin
tal is under way in West Virginia. sunset," he said f
That's Hollywood. In the mountains lington, Va.
of West Virginia, the project exists most- Others do not
ly in the imagination. Susan Cafoncelh,
There is no hospital, just a hodge- nurse) greW disem
podge of buildings, some half-finished, after a 1997 visit.
Dr. Hunter D. "Patch" Adams has ?ffe is a great
been raising money for his cause it to manipulate f
since the early '70s?more than $1.1 Adams dreams
million, by his own account. vice hospital wh<
He wants tens of millions more to tionally, physics
complete the project, but some are ques- healed through fri
tioning where the money is going?and holistic technique
whether the movie dream will ever be Gesundheit!
reality. Luchs, who has 1:
The Gesundheit! Institute, a health- months, rema:
care reform movement founded by "There's a ten
Adams more than 20 years ago, sits on happy when the i
310 acres Adams bought on Droop jt becomes appar<
Mountain. work," he said.
There is a 6,500-square-foot work- "Dissenters ai
shop, a half-built Russian-style dacha, there are only a f<
a two-hole outhouse and a cottage with Jef Harris, an ]
attached greenhouse. lives near Hillsbo
The cottage has a fax machine, a senters. He has n
computer and three phone lines. The sayS financial con
walls are unfinished planks. Heat comes joining Gesundhe
from a wood-fired stove. "Where's this n
There are no patients, just two not answer
staffers who answer an endless stream saicL "He's tak<
of calls and letters from people suddenly years and done n<
enchanted with the concept of free Adams dismis
health care after seeing Tatch Adams," one who couldn't
which stars Williams as a maverick relationship with
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a Charleston, W.Va., for operating expenses,
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>eople," she said. fantile."
5 of a 40-bed, full-ser- Adams, 53, is a lean 6 feet 4 inch
jre people are emo- with long gray hair and a handle!
illy and spiritually mustache,
iendship, humor and He dresses in colorful oversiz
s. clothing and clown shoes and beha\
staff member J on outrageously just to get a laugh,
ived in Hillsboro for On film and in life, he rails agaii
ins a believer. the medical establishment as being <
dency to become un- void of humanity and driven by gre<
deal isn't realized or But since the movie's release, m<
jnt it's going to take ey has become important to Gesur
heit!, too.
*e often loud, even if A web site that once focused
jw of them." Adams' mission now begs for mom
herb-store owner who "Don't wait, donate!" and "Put yc
ro, is among the dis- money where your nose is."
ever met Adams but For $10, donors get a red rub!
cerns kept him from nose. For $25, they get a whoopee cm
it!. ion. And for $75, they get a free cop)
loney going? The staff Adams' 200-page book,
that question," Har- Adams commands lecture fees
m people's money for high as $20,000. Universal Studios I
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