["Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty," ]
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Patch Adams: Bush 'fascist'
14/08/2005 12:27 - (SA)
Lima - A US 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 Organisation for
Excellence in Health.
The organisation 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.
"Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty,"
said Adams who has worked as a physician for 35 years.
"My work is to end violence, and to bring harmony to people," Adams
said, repeatedly expressing his repulsion for society's preoccupation
with "superficial" concerns, like "sports and Paris Hilton" hotel
heiress and reality series star.
"It's humiliating that a person who kicks a ball makes more money than
a school teacher," Adams said.
Adams was wrapping up a five-week trip to Peru - his third in the past
three years - during which he travelled to the northern Amazon city of
Iquitos, where he visited prisons, orphanages and Aids clinics.
"They had every reason to be sad and angry, yet people were instantly
friendly, engaging and giving," said Adams who has visited many
poverty-stricken or war-affected areas throughout the world.
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