Patch Adams: Looking Beyond Problems

Seeing Beyond the Problem!

Arthur Mendleson with Patch Adams

Arthur Mendelson: How many fingers do you see?
Hunter Patch Adams: Four.
Arthur Mendelson: No no! Look beyond the fingers! Now tell me how many you see.
Arthur Mendelson: You're focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem!
Arthur Mendelson: See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

Next time it hits the fan for you....try this RX. 
1.  Put a hand at your side,
2.  hold out four fingers,
3.  breathe deeply,
4.  and remember what came later in the movie.

Mendleson was in the hospital by his own choice.  Patch persuades him to become a part of his clinic to help those in need.  In fact, Mendleson decides to purchase the property to make it all happen.  He himself has looked past his own problem to see the world anew.  He has taken his own medicine.  So when his accountant chases him around the new property trying to talk him out of the sale, he says to Patch:

Arthur Mendelson: You learn anything about proctology yet Patch? Good, take care of this asshole for me, will ya?

5.  Then go ahead and laugh!