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Doctor-Clown prescribed
Photo report The New Times
For more than 20 years, Patch Adams, who has become the prototype of the hero Robin Williams in the film “Healer Adams”, spreads in hospitals, orphanages and nursing houses all over the world a universal medicine - laughter. Having once decided that no one should spend a single day on sadness, Dr. Adams founded his movement and has since been engaged in charity, putting on a clown costume. This fall, a group of volunteers from different countries came to Russia again
The Italian Dzhinevra Sangvino (left) comes to Russia every year, but does not know the Russian language. “Often a smile becomes the beginning of dialogue. Volunteers often do not know the Russian language, and the smile becomes their first tool, the first step towards communication, ”she says. Sangvino in a boarding school for blinded children in Sergiev Posad. November 2013
Clowns visited a bored child in the Morozov Children's Hospital in Moscow. November 2013
The doctor and director of the clinic in Denmark Niels is convinced that ordinary medical attention to the patient is not enough: "Nothing will work until contact with the patient is at the emotional level and there is no understanding that the patient feels from the inside." In the photo: Niels is trying to make contact with small patients of the hospital in St. Petersburg. November 2013
Dr. Clown Patch Adams hugs a child in a children's boarding school in the Leningrad Region. November 2013 
Clown noses remain for children. Moscow, Morozov Children's Hospital. November 2013
Marlene from Holland and Sonya from the USA in a children's boarding school in the Leningrad Region. November 2013
Patients in the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital of Moscow rejoice - clowns arrived. November 2013
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“Work tirelessly, take care of each other, this life should happen now, at the moment,” advises Patch Adams
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Maria Eliseeva, Director of the Art Rehabilitation Center “Children of Mary”, one of the followers of the doctor-clown in a children's camp. November 2013