Quotes About Diagnosis

I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result.

X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can't sing a note.

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

She said I could come back to her room if I liked. 'I'll check if you've got testicular cancer,' she said without a trace of humour. It kind of killed the mood.

It is estimated that one in every 83 Americans4 and one in 166 Britons5 is a diagnosable psychopath.

Julian was diagnosed with bone cancer in the spring of 1991. The cancer spread quickly and he died of it on August 16 of that year.

Dr. Neely's theory is that if you're not willing to get poked with a needle, then you're probably not sick enough to see a doctor.

Fourth, character is dynamic in that it generates new strivings, new needs and problems. It is largely through the identification of these needs that diagnosis proceeds, as when the discovery of excessive dependency or aggressiveness suggests that the patient has a particular type of character-structure.

Women who have been repeatedly raped in childhood—often by authority figures in their own families—are traumatized human beings; as such, they are often diagnosed as borderline personalities.

When you do a telemedicine visit, you don't do a proper physical exam.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.

It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

But they're being labeled bipolar. That's an enormous label that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.