Diagnosis Quotes

Diagnosis Quote of the day

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

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

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.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

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.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

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

A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

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

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

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

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

[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.

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.

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

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.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

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

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.

I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.

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

I don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy [Donald Trump] has a problem.

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

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

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

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.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

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

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