Gesundheit! Institute
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Oct 21, 2026
MossHOST
Are you sure?
BugHOST
Yeah, it's about the Gesundheit Institute, which is real, but the movie is, like, a Robin Williams joint that's largely fictionalized about a real guy, Patch Adams, whose, like, entire thing is that laughter is the best medicine, so he combines, like, being a total clown-
MossHOST
Hmm
BugHOST
... with being a physician.
Jana SchmidtGUEST
I love that.
Jana SchmidtGUEST
Um, Patch Adams has been involved in our lives as well, and they've read the Gesundheit Institute book.
Jana SchmidtGUEST
The- it's a great book.
Jana SchmidtGUEST
Uh, there's been so many.
Emily RaskHOST
He had lived communally with friends since nineteen seventy-one, using humor and clowning with patients as an actual part of his practice.
Emily RaskHOST
And in nineteen eighty-nine he turned it into a nonprofit called Gesundheit Institute.
Emily RaskHOST
Most people had never heard of him until nineteen ninety-eight when Robin Williams played him in a movie based on Adams own book and made two hundred and two million dollars worldwide.
Emily RaskHOST
A real working physician with a small nonprofit became a Christmas blockbuster.