Diagnosis Quotes - Page 9

• I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer' comes out of his mouth, at that point, it changes your life and you do fear less and it also has allowed me to be a lot more open as a person. It's changed me.

  Joe Lhota

  Cancer, Doctors, Mouths

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• The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.

  Ronald Goldman

  Pride, Gay, Sick

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• Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

  Kevin Whately

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Disease

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• 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.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Long, Drug

  "Patrick Soon-Shiong, LA’s Richest Man, Ups The Ante On Cancer Research, City Life" by Ronald Grover, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end, the high end, more children who are just a little bit off, who ordinarily you would not single out now are being described as perhaps Asperger’s syndrome or on the high end of the autism spectrum, so I don’t believe there is an epidemic.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Children, Believe, Epidemics

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we definitely want to treat whatever else is going on, but insomnia often because it becomes its own diagnosis and that requires its own treatment.

  Shelby Harris

  Kids, Insomnia, Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Believe, Thinking, Psychiatry

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.

  Walter White

  Morning, Sleep, Years

  "Breaking Bad". TV Series, Episode: "Better Call Saul", www.imdb.com. 2008-2013.

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• Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb, part of it was neurotic and desperate. To mush all of those notes together would cancel them out. I ended up just trying to keep them as separate as possible.

  Monica Youn

  Sarcastic, Together, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Guy, Able

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

  Baron Vaughn

  Insulting, Shoulders

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Pregnancy, Thinking

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.

  Temple Grandin

  School, Kids, College

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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