Diagnosis Quotes - Page 3

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

  Sharon M. Draper

  Names, Persons

  Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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

  Norman Cousins

  Wisdom, Trying, Verdict

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  Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

  Groucho Marx

  Art, Freedom, Political Will

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• It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.

  Naomi Klein

  Science, Community, Political

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

  Ivan Illich

  Doctors, Long, Physicians

  Medical Nemesis

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• A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be the first to say, it's can't help you to deal with the stress and disappointment and terror that comes with a diagnosis, and nor can it help you to die well, like Socrates, kindly, not railing against faith, but in possession of your own death. For these imponderable questions people have turned to mythos.

  Karen Armstrong

  Disappointment, Cancer, Stress

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story too quickly, ask yourself what you've left out. If you've come to a certain point too slowly, ask yourself what kept you so long.

  Reginald Hill

  Mean, Simple, Long

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• Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl
  or felt the numbness of an unexpected diagnosis in a pediatrician's office will appreciate the heartfelt wisdom in It's Okay to Cry. Norm Wright tenderly and skillfully equips parents to help children cultivate a healthy response to life's many pains and sorrows.

  Lori Borgman

  Children, Pain, Heart

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• Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

  Andrew Saul

  Art, Doctors, Medicine

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Moving, Loss

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• I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  "What is Autism?". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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

  Doug Stanhope

  Religious, Want, Medical

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• The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you.

  Geneen Roth

  Live Life, Earthquakes, Missing

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• It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Exercise

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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

  Physicians, Needs, Disease

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• We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

  Peter Jennings

  Cancer, Survival, Survivor

  Final ABC broadcast, April 5, 2005.

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

  Barbara Brennan

  Healing, Medical, Patient

  Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing”, p.97, Bantam

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• The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

  Avicenna

  Science, Medical Knowledge, Medicine

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

  Samuel James Meltzer

  Get Well, Medicine, Doe

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• How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

  Abraham Kuyper

  Eye, Yield, Age

  Abraham Kuyper (2009). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.

  Dana Reeve

  Cancer, Thinking, Tunnels

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

  Carrie Fisher

  Bipolar, Accepting

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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

  Cancer, Doctors, Vegetarian

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• There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.

  Denis Leary

  Mother, Jobs, Dad

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.98, Penguin

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• 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 Tierney

  Way, Remember, Treatment

  "‘ER’ star Maura Tierney debunks chemo myths after breast cancer" By Jessica Ryen Doyle, www.foxnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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