467. “I am a Doctor, but all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.” Patch Adams joins us to talk about our upcoming clown mission to Costa Rica.

<p style= "background: #74A9CE; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;"> <span style= "font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .1pt;"> In the last 28 years, Patch has created 50 presentations and performed them in 70 countries. He’s spoken at 90 medical schools in the US and many more around the world. Over the course of the last two decades he’s been on the road for 200-300 days of the year.</span></p> <p style= "margin: 0in; background: #74A9CE; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style= "font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .1pt;"> In 1985, he took a group of people on a clown trip to what was then the Soviet Union. Equipped with colorful clothing and compassion we visited hospitals, orphanages, homes for the elderly as well as just clowning on the street. Since then, these trips have been an integral part of <a style= "font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;" title="Global Outreach" href= "https://www.patchadams.org/global-outreach/"><span style= "font-family: 'inherit',serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gesundheit´s global outreach</span></a>. Apart from returning to Russia every year there have been clown trips to