Quotes About Diagnosis

My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem.

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

A note for physicians: if you listen carefully to what patients say, they will often tell you not only what is wrong with them but also what is wrong with you.

Raskin died of pancreatic cancer in 2005, not long after Jobs was diagnosed with the disease.

Jobs's obstinacy lasted for nine months after his October 2003 diagnosis. Part of it was the product of the dark side of his reality distortion field. "I think Steve has such a strong desire for the world to be a certain way that he wills it to be that way," Levinson speculated. "Sometimes it doesn't work. Reality is unforgiving.

To countervail (as I hope) my lifelong political set against just about all of this president's positions, I confess to a very strong sense of the dreadfulness of the step of removal, of the deep wounding such a step must inflict on the country, and thus approach it as one would approach high-risk major surgery, to be resorted to only when the rightness of diagnosis and treatment is sure.

It's either the flu or love... The synptoms are the same.

I think I know what's wrong with you... Walk up onto that pitcher's mound... Does your stomach hurt now?" "Yes! Ow! Ooo! Yes!" "All right, now come down off the mound... There... Has it stopped hurting?" "Yes... Yes, I think it has!" "There's your trouble... Five cents, please!

I don't know exactly what's wrong with you, but I bet it's hard to pronounce when you're drunk."

My own mental health issues had come and gone the same way, diagnosed nearly a hundred years ago as simple "hysteria," which only meant that I was a woman and really, who gave a shit what was actually wrong with me? Or

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what's the matter. He's just got to know.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

By the time the doctor came, we had lifted my father's body to the couch and covered it with a blanket. The doctor was a thin, sturdy man, bald, with thick glasses. He lifted the blanket and looked. He dropped the blanket. "He's dead, all right." I

patients (A, B, and C). Upper images are PET and lower images are fused PET/CT.

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

Besides, there wasn't much the lab could tell a physician in 1940 that a well-trained, observant doctor couldn't determine independently.

knock, knock. who's there? it's cancer. cancer who? cancer of the section right behind your belly button that you have been trying to pass off as the pinch of ovulation. but it's not. it's cancer. it's me.

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.

Mr. Herman, you're wearing glasses. Were you wearing them on the morning of March first?" "Yes, I was." "And what is your vision when you're wearing your glasses?" "Twenty-twenty." "Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental disorder?" "No. Never." "Thank you. That's all I have, Your Honor.

Nevertheless, aims of this kind cannot be pursued unless those responsible for diagnosis, for devising tactics, for recommending actions and for carrying out actions know what they are doing. They must know it not in some generalized way, but in terms of the precise and unique places in a city with which they are dealing. Much of what they need to know they can learn from no one but the people of the place, because nobody else knows enough about it.

I don't know much about cars, Joyce said, but I think someone took my engine.

I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.