- Didn't like Patch Adams (1998).
- Personally conducts patient interviews that often last up to four hours long.
- He and his team did not receive Government funding and had to fund their hospital by working other jobs.
- Started his "Gesundheit!" institute, which is committed to bringing health care to those who cannot afford it, in 1971 after graduating medical school with twenty other people. It was located in his home and there could be up to fifty people staying there in a single night.
- He was institutionalized multiple times for suicide attempts when he was a teenager.
- His institution has provided medical aid in war zones in Bosnia, Refugee camps in Macedonia and orphanages in South Africa.
- Entered Medical school without an Undergraduate degree.
- Writes 4 to 600 long-hand letters each month.
- Does not know how to use a computer.
- Appointed Honorary Ambassador of Peace for the Harvey Ball Foundation along with Jackie Chan, Brooke Shields, A.V.T. Shankardass, Jerry Lewis, Prince Albert of Monaco, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Phil Collins, Jimmy Buffett, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Darrell Waltrip, Heather Mills, Yoko Ono, Sergei Khrushchev and Winnie Mandela.
- Is a frequent speaker at medical schools and conferences.
- Granddaughter Violet born to eldest son, Zag, 38, on October 1st, 2014.
- Signed the Not In Our Name pledge in 2002, vowing opposition to the Bush administration's policies in the War on Terrorism. Other signatories included Robert Altman, John Cusack, Casey Kasem, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon and Howard Zinn.
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