Diagnosis Quotes - Page 2

• There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

  Oliver Sacks

  Science, Medicine, Physicians

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

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

  William Osler

  Ignorance, Beats, Wiser

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.102, ACP Press

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• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  Olympia Snowe

  Cancer, Simple, Long

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• We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

  Paul Dudley White

  Practice Of Medicine, Important, Experience

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

  Teri Garr

  Attitude, Sense Of Humor, Therapy

  "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.

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• A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

  Karen Duffy

  Optimistic, People, Mind

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• 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

  Trust, Support, Disease

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

  Eleanor Clift

  Mean, Doctors, Six Months

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• This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

  David Foster Wallace

  Two, Engagement, Done

  Review with Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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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 Adams

  Eye, Science, Medical

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• 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

  Mean, Bipolar, Doe

  "Imagine, Dignity with Mental Illness - Much Work to Do" by Kerry Ryan-Kuhn, June 12, 2013.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Treasure, Reminders, This Life

  "Elizabeth Edwards Battles Breast Cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Media, Description

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

  Henry Howarth Bashford

  Science, News, Ifs

  The Corner of Harley Street Ch. 26

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• Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

  Mindy Kaling

  Cancer, Struggle, Trying

  "Mindy Kaling Loves Rom Coms (And Being The Boss)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2017.

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• Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Healing, Recovery, Years

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• The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.

  Charles Loomis Dana

  Mistake, Character, Science

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• The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Anxiety, Disease

  Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818). “Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life”, p.112

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• I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

  Robert Boyle

  Recovery, Exercise, Science

  Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

  William Osler

  Physicians, Records, Half

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• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, Power, Psychics

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Responsibility, Criticism

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• Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

  Eric Topol

  Medicine, People, Population

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• We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Cancer, Car, Death Of A Loved One

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• I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  School, Science, Thinking

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