Diagnosis Quotes

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

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.

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.

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.

An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

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.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

Even your religious friends do not want to hear about God during a medical diagnosis.

To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.

Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

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.

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

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.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

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.

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

I want to show the world there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life, after diagnosis.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.