Patch Adams Essay - Topic #1
A moment of laughter can make a difference in one life. Patch Admas made is patient’s laughs and lifts their spirit up and made them feel like the still have chance of survive. Patch Adams also said that physicians and clowns consider humor and friendship part of the cure in any healing process. When a doctor/nurse develop that friendship with their patients there will always be laughter between the two when they meet. When kids are little and are afraid to go to the dentist some dentist create a fun atmosphere so that that child can field at home all at a game and they will feel happy and that scary feelings will go away and they will be calm. Being angry all the time is not even healthy for your body it can get you stress out and raised your blood pressure up. When you don’t have a good spirit in some sickness you has less chance of surviving. In most diseases like for example cancer patients if they don’t have that laughter that they get when their family or friends are around the cant survived. As a doctor or nurse when their family, friends, or love ones are not around it should be your responsibility to make they feel like they are. As a doctor or nurse your job shouldn’t be strictly a job that you are doing for money take it as your way of living and treat your patients as your own family. Embraced your patients, always make them feel at home let them be comfortable. Knowing what medicine to give your patients doesn’t make you a good doctor but the way you treat them will always make them come back to you. These are some of the reason people have family doctor because they are used to that doctor and know that the doctor will treat their family the same way he treats them. People love when people listen to them so when a doctor listens to them it makes them feel like they care.