Imagine how shallow that is relative to who I am.' Patch had dreamed that the film might help him to raise enough money to build a 40-bed hospital on 310 acres of land in Pocohontas County, West Virginia. 'I knew the movie would do this,' Adams said. Patch admits that he never expected the movie to be a catalyst that would help spread his idea of care to the masses. They actually thought that they didn't know the person they were reading about.' There were dumb, stupid, meaningless things.
In an interview with New Renaissance Magazine, the real Patch Adams responded to this question by saying the following, 'After the movie, there wasn't a single positive article about our work or me. Did the media attention from the movie help the real Patch Adams' efforts?
