Diagnosis Quotes - Page 6

• Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It’s like fashion, like everything’s already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can’t get a diagnosis for.

  Mary Roach

  Fashion, Crazy, People

  "Why “Asshole” Is High Praise - and Other Anatomy Lessons With Mary Roach". Interview with Sarah Zhang, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2013.

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

  Demi Lovato

  World, Want, Unexpected

  Demi Lovato's speech at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Annual National Convention, www.c-span.org. September 4, 2014.

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• I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

  Andrew Weil

  Medicine, Disease, Serious

  "The Wrong Diagnosis" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2009.

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• My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Country, Father, Home

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

  Allen Frances

  Tests, Judgment, Psychiatric

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• Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.301, Counterpoint Press

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• Ayurveda is not just about nutrition or herbology, it has a unique tool for diagnosis, diagnosis of understanding the human constitution is different from person to person. Each one has a unique metabolic system.

  Maya Tiwari

  Unique, Ayurveda, Understanding

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

  Karl Kraus

  Doctors, Disease

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it's not even mentioned in our Western medical textbooks.

  Deepak Chopra

  Loss, Serious Illness, Soul

  Source: www.sharedwisdom.com

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• The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Lying, Epidemics, Wife

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• Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Discipline, Investing

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• 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

  Acceptance, Causes, Failing

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, United States, Tasks

  Christopher Hitchens (1994). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.219, Verso

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• Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis.

  Harriet Lerner

  Sex, Judging People, Merit

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 18, 2015

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• A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Opportunity, Odds

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• People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Heart, Justice

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• A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

  Eric Topol

  Change, Real, Smartphones

  "New technologies put the patient first" by Lindsay Carlton, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.

  Charlie Kimball

  Support Systems, Challenges, Stronger

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• Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

  Charlie Kimball

  Race, Car, Support

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• My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Father, Cancer

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• 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

  Believe, Stuff, Offers

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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

  Cote de Pablo

  Discovery, Medical, Shows

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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 Sidis

  Community, Recognition, Individual

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 275), 1922.

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• 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.

  Willard Scott

  Clouds, Years, Vision

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• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Attention, Examination, Labs

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