


The plan is to create a model that addressed all the problems of health care in one model. The atmosphere would enhance healing and relieve suffering. The Gesundheit hospital would be a health care community based on friendship and mutual interdependence, with a staff that lives in the facility with their families in a collective atmosphere of happiness, silliness, love, creativity and cooperation. So I envisioned a model of holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the society and the world. The plan reflected my realization that the systems in which people live-capitalist, patriarchal, militaristic systems-effected not only their finances, choice of work, housing, education etc, but also effected their health. It was clear I would need to plan it out. But I knew of no models in America for a therapeutic medical community that put humanism first. A group-communal situation seemed the most promising approach.

Then we plan to visit the mountain villages for a few days, where we will. The first stop will be in Kathmandu, where we will stay at a B&B facility which is also a social inclusion project for young people from rural areas. Titled ‘Positive Thinking’, the plan was about providing health care in the best interests of patient and staff alike. From 27 April to, we will go with a small group of volunteer clowns to Nepal. I drew up a grandiose plan-having no idea how grandiose at the time-that I felt ready to commit myself to. “In my last year at the Medical College of Virginia, I began working on a line of thought about my dreams to improve health care that would shape the rest of my life. How effective is hospital-based specialist palliative care for adults with a terminal illness and their unpaid caregivers, and is it.
