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Michael Christensen, one of the founders of the New York City
Circus brought up the idea
of Clown Doctoring in 1986. His new project developped fastly and now the Big
Apple Circus employs 60 clowns
who visit children in 16 hospitals in New York and Boston.
They always begin their visit with the question:
"May I come in?"
The mother seems to be the Big Apple Circus with its department Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit®
For example in the Yale-New Haven Hospital
to spread this marvellous idea contact them directly,l please!
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So far they are working in the following centers in Germany:
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In 1993 one of these ClownDocs, Laura Fernandez, came to Germany and founded the "Clown Doktoren e.V." in 1994.
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who treat children with smiling.
In 1999 there are already 17 ClownDocs working in the Rhine-Main-area.
In Wiesbaden the Dr.-Horst-Schmidt-Klinik with their medical director of the
children´s department Prof.Dr.med. Michael Albani were the first
to start in Germany.
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Patch is both a medical doctor and a clown…but he is also a social activist who has devoted 30 years to changing America's healthcare system, a system which he describes as expensive and elitist. He believes that laughter, joy and creativity are an integral part of
the healing process and therefore true health care must incorporate such
life. Doctors and patients in his model relate to each other on the
basis of mutual trust, and patients receive plenty of time from their
doctors. Allopathic doctors and practitioners of alternative medicine
will work side by side. If you think that all sounds like a utopian
impossibility, it isn't. Patch and his colleagues practiced medicine at
the Gesundheit Institute together in West Virgina that way for 12 years
in what he calls their Through the success of this program at the Arlington, Virginia
location, a model health care facility is being planned on 310 acres
purchased in Pocahontas County, WV. The Institute will include a 40-bed
hospital, a theater, arts and crafts shops, horticulture and vocational
therapy. Over five years ago, Dr. Adams and staff temporarily stopped
seeing patients so that they could coordinate plans for raising $5
Million needed for the Institute's permanent and expanded home, a
The Institute addresses, by action, four major issues in health care delivery: the rising cost of care, dehumanization of medicine, malpractice suits, and abuses of third-party insurance system. Dr. Adams adds to his training as a physician, his experience as a
street clown. In working with health and mental health professionals, he
explores the relationship between humor and therapy using his unique
blend of knowledge, showmanship and Patch Adams, M.D., is a nationally known speaker on wellness,
laughter, and humor as well as on health care and health care systems.
He approaches the issues of personal, community, and global health with
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