Has "Patch Adams" Gotten the Medical Industry to Change Procedure Yet? #TrueHealing #Therapy #Friends

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"Patch Adams" is the movie where Robin Williams plays a former mental-patient (self-admitted) who is disgusted by the medical industry's practice of 'treating diseases rather than patients,' and who goes through med-school and then starts the Gesundheit Institute (sort of 'a hospital run for the patients by the patients'). I'm wondering if any deans-of-med-schools saw that & thought, "You know, we need to add a touch of that to our curriculum!" Or if--by the time they've been "successful" for so long--there's not a layer of 'grown-uppity-ness' between "the way things are" & "the way the Gesundheit Institute handles things." (Like maybe the medical-executives are thinking "Well, we medical professionals are PAID to treat the diseases; let 'treating the patients themselves' be the focus of the patients' FAMILIES & FRIENDS, who can do that BETTER than any of us 'disease-wranglers!'") This comes up, because my best friend has decided to go to medical school. It's a wise decision, but I think we have to remember 'Patch Adams' ... not to encourage med-people to 'start to treat the patients & not the disease,' but more to remind med-people that 'curing the disease' DOES NOT 'complete the needed recovery' (which is rightly handled by the patients' friends & family). I was gonna suggest that all med-people WATCH PATCH ADAMS at-least twice-a-year, but with this new meditation I think I'd rather suggest that of the sequel (which I haven't even started writing yet) in which it's revealed that 'doctors' ARE NOT the healers unless they happen to BE your friends & family.