Quotes About Diagnosis

Shortly after Dave was diagnosed with leish, Tom Weinberg learned from the CDC that he, too, had the disease. Chris Fisher, Mark Adams, and Juan Carlos Fernández went to the NIH and were also diagnosed with it. All were treated except Juan Carlos; Dr. Nash recognized that his immune system appeared to be fighting it off and decided to delay treatment. It was the right decision, and Juan Carlos ended up leish-free without going through the rigors of amphotericin B.

They found he'd had a lethal dose of something that only a doctor could pronounce properly. As far as I remember it sounds vaguely like di-flor, hexagonal-ethylcarbenzol. That's not the right name. But that's roughly what it sounds like.

Heart failure may always be translated as the inability of the local GP to discover what his patient really did die of...

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis, I decided as I made my way up the dirt path in the pouring rain.

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...

Kenzo felt one of his sudden mood-swings coming on. He had first experienced this disturbing phenomenon while stranded in the depths of the mountains of the Philippines, resigned to imminent death. It had been diagnosed as a post-traumatic nervous disorder, and in certain situations it would flare up suddenly, without warning.

Don't screen unless you can do something for those patients discovered early that would produce an overall benefit to their lives. Otherwise, cease and desist.

Tiger had reached out to the Mickelsons after Amy's diagnosis, sending a heartfelt text in which he included the sentiment that he hoped doctors would someday find a cure for cancer, which had struck Woods's father in 1998 and begun his declining

I've never been diagnosed with anything, I've self diagnosed myself with multiple personality disorder and DID.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?

Physicians should be genotyped.

I chose the Pink Fund because my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and I was pretty young in high school. At the time when she got re-diagnosed, my family had to move and they lost a job. Times were tough a little bit financially. The Pink Fund allows money to be raised to help women in need. I'm really excited to be able to represent that.

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

Parents are satisfied only if their children are gifted or exceptional (or diagnosed with a treatable problem that the right pill cocktail can restore to excellence).

Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.

Sooner or later, most of us will listen to a physician speak the name of our killer.

The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.

I always encourage people to go to a doctor, a doctor knows best in most cases.