MOVIE • 1999

The Real Patch Adams

He's a doctor, a clown, and a social activist, who wants to change the health care system.

Meet Patch Adams, the real person behind the hit movie "Patch Adams," starring Robin Williams. 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.