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Physician Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams was born in Washington
Physician Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams, the controversial founder of the Gesundheit! Institute in Pocahontas County was born May 28, 1945 in Washington, D.C.. Since 1971, Adams has promoted an alternative vision of health care: traditional medicin...
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