Quotes About Diagnosis

So my dyslexia has got me into trouble, but I feel I can talk about it because I want to say to everyone who is dyslexic that the technology exists to help. The most important thing was being diagnosed.

When I was diagnosed with cancer at age 22, I learned just how much cancer affects families when it affects individuals.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

I was diagnosed as bipolar.

I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.

It was a huge shock when my mum was diagnosed. She was 49 when she found a lump in one of her breasts and sensed something was wrong. At the time, we did a breast cancer campaign together. I still do a lot of charity runs.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

My own experience with PCOS shows just how hard it is for women with the condition to get a proper diagnosis.

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time by catching up on reading or watching all those Criterion Collection movies I'd always meant to watch.

For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn't walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lacrimal gland.

It's not just our high-mindedness or altruism that keeps us off "the scent," nor is it that our public is not interested in "higher" things (they are). Some basic unwillingness to see things as they are and then attempt to take corrective action is missing in our present make-up. We are neither good diagnosticians nor good leaders. Rather, caterers and men of fashion. More interested in curtain walls than how to accommodate the car.

I had been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in my early thirties, when most doctors didn't even know it existed. Symptoms include sudden weight gain (check), irregular periods (check), chin hair (check), high triglyceride levels (check), and, the kicker, insulin resistance (check, check, check).

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

I know what ails you.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.