Quotes About Diagnosis

He fulfilled the bipolar checklist. See? And so they gave him some pretty heavy-duty medication. It slowed him way down, to a drooling fat kid. And they declared the meds a success." It

I would also say you can never reduce any person to a diagnostic label.

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.

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I

complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.

Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal," said Allen Frances.

American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. —DAVID ROSENHAN

Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic." I

The way the diagnosis is being made in America was not something we intended," he said. "Kids with extreme irritability and moodiness and temper tantrums are being called bipolar.

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI or orthopedic consult.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

Nonc's dad has had cancer before, so the diagnosis isn't exactly news. There's something right about it, though. A man spends his life "not expected"—isn't that how it should end?

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious."

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it all kind of comes home.

I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases

Physicians rarely take medicine.