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Patch Adams Themes

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Human Health Care

You treat a disease you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome. (Hunter “Patch” Adams)

One of the most important parts of human health care is the relationship between doctor and patient. I think that this is one of the main themes of the movie Patch Adams and is also an actual problem of health care system. I consider that a personal approach to the patient can have great benefits.
To begin with, medicine in general focuses more on the disease than on the patient. For example the evaluation of a treatment is based on the effectiveness of curing the disease and a procedure is good as long as it ameliorates the symptoms. This model is practical because it has some objective

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