Diagnosis Quotes - Page 7

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

  Henry Paulson

  Christian, Doctors, Scientist

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• He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Raised

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.107, Macmillan

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• I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

  John Green

  Self

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.54, Penguin

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• Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.

  Aimee Friedman

  Summer, Stupidity, Summer Sun

  Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK

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• I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

  John Green

  Cancer, Congratulations, Miracle

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

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• Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Suicide, Daughter, Song

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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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• I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.

  Iain Banks

  Atheist, Cancer, Thinking

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• He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Patient

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.59, Scholastic Inc.

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• Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.

  Alfred Binet

  Children, Science, Intelligent

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Works on Psychometrics”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.

  John Henry Jowett

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

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• Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Criticism

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.30, PuddleDancer Press

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• Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Intellectual, Criticism

  "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding".

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• Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should be treated accordingly. It is like handcuffs to the mind and spirit and is nothing but destructive to mankind. In fact I don't really see Christianity as a religion. It is more like a spiritual plague, a mass psychosis, and it should first and foremost be treated as a problem to be solved by the medical science. Christianity is a diagnosis. It's like Islam and the other Asian religions, a HIV/AIDS of the spirit and mind.

  Varg Vikernes

  Spiritual, Psychosis, Mind

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• 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.

  Steve Gleason

  Running, Moon, Want

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• A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dance, Lying, Dancing

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

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Have Confidence, Ifs

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Way, Profit, Prognosis

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Giving, Drug

  Thomas Szasz's remarks at the 35th Anniversary and Human Rights Award Dinner of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, www.szasz.com. February 28, 2004.

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• The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

  David Rosenhan

  Long, Insanity, Facts

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• A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either inspirational or despairing. It is a story in which I cast myself; it is my inner cinema, the motion picture of my inner reality - one that moves all the time. No diagnosis can fix the myth, no cure can settle it, because our inner life is precisely what, in us, will not lie still.

  Ginette Paris

  Lying, Moving, Reality

  Ginette Paris (2013). “Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology After Neuroscience”, p.81, Routledge

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• But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  Esther Perel

  Religious, Art, Sex

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• Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Medicine, Issues, Secret

  The Great American Fraud p. 39. Collier and Sons (1905)

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• If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

  Oliver Sacks

  Science, Medicine, Physicians

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

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• My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Sorry, Consistency, Special

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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