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Another difference is the then 47-year-old Robin Williams portrays Adams as enrolling in medical school very late in his life, his older age even being brought up in dialogue.

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Set in the late 1960searly 1970s, it is based on the life story of Dr.

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Hunter Patch Adams and the book Gesundheit: Good Health Is a Laughing Matter by Dr.

Adams and Maureen Mylander.

It received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, criticizing the sentimental tone, direction and deviations from the real story, 1 but grossed 202.3 million on a 90 million budget.

Once there, he finds that using humor, rather than doctor-centered psychotherapy, better helps his fellow patients and provides him with a new purpose in life.

Because of this, he wants to become a medical doctor, and two years later enrolls at the Medical College of Virginia (now known as VCU School of Medicine ) as the oldest first year student.

He questions the schools soulless approach to medical care, particularly why students dont work with patients until their third year, as well as the methods of the schools Dean Walcott, who takes an instant disliking to Patch and believes that doctors must treat patients his way and not befriend them.

Because of this and incidents such as setting up a giant model papier-mch pair of legs in stirrups during an obstetric conference, he is expelled from the medical school, although he is later reinstated when it becomes apparent to the school that his unconventional methods often improve his patients health.

Adams encourages medical students to work closely with nurses, learn interviewing skills early, and argues that death should be treated with dignity and sometimes even humor.

With the help of Arthur Mendelson, a wealthy man who was a patient whom Patch met while in the mental hospital, he purchases 105 acres (42.5 hectares) in West Virginia to construct the future Gesundheit Institute.

Together with Carin, medical student Truman Schiff, and some old friends, he renovates an old cottage into a clinic.

When they get the clinic running, they treat patients without medical insurance and perform comedy sketches for them.

When she tells him that she had been molested as a child, Patch comforts her and reassures her that she can overcome her pain by helping others.

Encouraged, Carin wants to help a disturbed patient, Lawrence Larry Silver.

Patch is guilt-ridden by Carins death and begins to question the goodness in humanity.

Standing on a cliff, he contemplates suicide again and asks God for an explanation.

He then sees a butterfly that reminds him that Carin had always wished she was a caterpillar that could turn into a butterfly and fly away.

The butterfly lands on his medical bag and shirt before flying away.

With his spirits revived, Patch decides to dedicate his work to her memory.

Patch succeeds in convincing the board that he must treat the spirit as well as the body.

The board, although they still find some of his methods questionable, allows him to graduate and he receives a standing ovation from the packed hearing room.

A diner was temporarily placed in Point Richmond (a neighborhood in Richmond, California ) and served as the University Diner.

Several interior classroom scenes were filmed on the campus of UC Berkeley.

One is that the character of Carin is fictional but is analogous to a real life friend of Adams (a man) who was murdered under similar circumstances.