It is also a fantasy, a sham, even a scam. We're going to make you into doctors.' Patch Adams, a substantial hit starring Robin Williams, is a rude and hopeful gesture of protest against the idea that doctors have to exchange humanity for professionalism.
People are not worthy of trust.' Therefore, he says, he and his colleagues 'are going to take the human being out of you. Early in Patch Adams the film's bête noire, a grim and impersonal doctor, delivers this wisdom to a lecture hall of first-year medical students: 'It is human nature to lie.
