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There are many drastic differences between the extremely respectable communication of the magnanimous Patch Adams and the almost cataclysmic communication of the normal doctoral staff of the respected medical school, the mental hospital, and the regular hospital that the medical students were trained at. These two different ways of communicating were considerably different in their intentions, their every day morals and values, and even their exceptionally diverse ways of treating patients.

The regular doctors had acceptable intentions although they did not put forth any extra effort to make the patient feel better emotionally. On the other hand Patch Adams had great intentions of making the vulnerable patient feel better physically, emotionally,
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Patch Adams achieved this by reaching out to the patent and thinking of the ill as people not patents. This assisted Patch in accomplishing unparalleled communication with patients. He was better than any doctor or psychologist, even the geniuses who spent years studying the mind, and the most brilliant sociologists had not even came close to, or even dreamed about reaching his wild and extraordinary goals that he planned to accomplish with flying colors. But the only way he could even come close to pulling off some of the amazing tasks he had placed on his treacherous path was with excellent communication. Also the some of the hardened medical students only had the intentions of racing through medical school just to achieve the privilege of being called doctor, or because the rest of their family had gone to that insanely expensive college, but not to help people or even because they wanted to. But Patch went to help people, not just for the money like other students there did, no he went to help people, and he knew how, by communicating with the patents not by only prescribing them medicine, but

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