“Patch Adams” my favourite movie of all time
If you get a chance to watch any movie that will inspire you about being passionate about your career, making a difference and backing your beliefs please watch the movie called “Patch Adams” starring Robin Williams
It certainly inspired me….especially the speech below.
Just briefly, the movie is a TRUE story and about a self institutionalized depressed patient (Williams) who while hospitalised discovers he has a gift for helping people. He leaves the hospital, enrols into university and becomes a medical doctor, but really struggles with the way hospital patients are treated and spoken to. He treats patients (with happiness and kindness) in a way that is seen by the powers to be (medical fraternity) as being radical and damaging, so he ends up having to face a panel of influential doctors to tell why he should be allowed to practice medicine. This is part of his inspirational speech below:
“I want to become a doctor so I can serve other, and because of that I have lost everything but I have also gained everything. I’ve shared the lives of patients and staff members at the hospital, I’ve laughed with them, I’ve cried with them…..this is what I want to do with my life and as God is my witness, no matter what you decide today….I will become the best damn doctor the world has ever seen!
You have the ability to prevent me from graduating, you can keep me from getting the title and the white coat, but you can’t control my spirit!!
Gentleman, you can’t keep me from learning, you can’t keep me from studying, so, you have a choice….you can have me as a professional college, passionate, or you can have me as an outspoken outsider, still adamant…..either way, I will still be viewed as a thorn, but, I promise you one thing….. I am a thorn that is not going away!!!”
Dear readers,
The movie “Patch Adams” is a about always being true to yourself and that is a great lesson right there!
Enjoy the movie
DB