Boy, they only come out at night, don't they. 

 Anyhow, film cricket Jim Emerson makes the following illuminating description of Patch Adams in his blog on Roger Ebert's website. 

 http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060416/SCANNERS/60416001 

 :a fascistic "holistic healer," a stern, authoritarian autocrat with a messianic complex  everybody's nightmare of a medical sociopath with delusions of grandeur. He claims that laughter is the best medicine, but comes across  in public, at least  as utterly humorless, angry, and interested in nothing but himself. He doesn't know how to listen, only to grandstand and boast and berate anyone and everyone who fails to pay sufficient obeisance to his mammoth ego, his self-proclaimed selflessness, and his inerrant wonderfulness. It's as if John Wayne Gacy thought he was the Dalai Lama