The patients and the nurses loved him, of course, but fellow students and professors responded predictably, by focusing on his long hair and handlebar moustache, he says in “Gesundheit.” (Adams declined to be interviewed for this story. Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Home Page Close MenuĪdams, 53, father of two sons, probably has not done some of the outlandish things attributed to him in his namesake movie - the Robin Williams character dressed up as an angel to help a dying patient accept death, and tap dances in the children’s ward wearing bedpans for shoes.īut he was rebuked by a dean at the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond 30 years ago for being “excessively happy.” His sin: transference, or getting too close to patients: When the other docs were away, he liked to visit patients, listen to them, massage their backs, even cry with them.
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