quotes about Diagnosis
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Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...
-- Aimee FriedmanSource : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
-- Alfred P. SloanSource : "The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990". Book by Ronald D. Pasquariello, p. 103, 1991.
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The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
-- Allen Frances -
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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
-- Anna Quindlen -
He was raised without a proper diagnosis.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.
-- Barbara BrennanSource : Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing”, p.97, Bantam
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The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
-- Boris SidisSource : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 275), 1922.
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People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis ...
-- Charlotte Mew -
The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.
-- Christiane Northrup -
I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.
-- Cote de Pablo -
Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
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You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I want to show the world that there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life...after diagnosis
-- Demi Lovato -
Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.
-- Denis Parsons Burkitt -
Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.
-- Edie Falco -
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If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.
-- Edwin Lefevre -
I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
-- Elaine Paige -
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.
-- Elyn Saks -
To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews , and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.
-- Henry Howarth BashfordSource : The Corner of Harley Street Ch. 26
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As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.
-- Henry Paulson -
The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
-- Ivan Illich -
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
-- Jane Pauley -
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I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.
-- Jenny McCarthy -
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
-- Joshua Lederberg -
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
-- Kate Millett -
Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
-- Lance Armstrong -
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He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.
-- Maura TierneySource : "‘ER’ star Maura Tierney debunks chemo myths after breast cancer" By Jessica Ryen Doyle, www.foxnews.com. September 30, 2012.
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I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.
-- Michael Dorn -
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
-- Norman Cousins -
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Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
-- Norman Cousins -
We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.
-- Peter JenningsSource : Final ABC broadcast, April 5, 2005.
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The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.
-- Ray Comfort -
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
-- Robert Graves -
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Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
-- Samuel Hopkins AdamsSource : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”
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The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.
-- Samuel James Meltzer -
If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'
-- Scott BaioSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
-- Sharon M. DraperSource : Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
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If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
-- Teri GarrSource : "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.
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My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
-- Tim Burton -
The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.
-- Tim Field -
I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.
-- Tim Gunn -
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In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
-- Tony AlessandraSource : Tony Alessandra, Phil Wexler, Anthony J. Alessandra, Rick Barrera (1992). “Non-Manipulative Selling”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
-- William J. H. Boetcker -
Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis,
-- William Osler -
I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis.
-- Andy Kindler -
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I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."
-- Baron VaughnSource : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
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I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.
-- Jonathan Michel MetzlSource : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
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There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).
-- Richard Bentall -
Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.
-- Rosalynn CarterSource : "Rosalynn Carter: Advocate for the mentally ill". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. August 11, 2010.
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