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Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

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Patch Adams
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 28
Diplomat
Physician
Washington
District of Columbia
Poverty
Health
Means
Mean
Life
Devoting
Ending
Excellence

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