Quotes About Diagnosis

There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.

El médico lo examinó con esa atención profesional que está visiblemente buscando la causa del mal, en las enfermedades de los padres. Después

And has anything changed today? Where are the authorities now? How come any regular M.D. or pediatrician is allowed to diagnose depression or bipolar illness or ADD in children, and prescribe medications, without a second opinion? How many children are taking powerful brain medications now simply because their parents find them too difficult to handle? How many of those boys and girls are having their childhoods taken away from them, the way mine was taken away from me?

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Abortions that occur late in pregnancy are often due to extreme, extenuating circumstances such as when a woman's life is in danger, when there has been a severe fetal diagnosis, or when the pregnancy is not viable.

If a doctor has worked through the problem well, there's a very good chance that one of these possible diagnoses will be right. The rest though, by definition, will be wrong. We are regularly wrong in the pursuit of being right. … The question we are taught to ask ourselves is, if it isn't that, what else could it be?

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

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In medicine, it is essential to rule out diseases that can kill, and then move on to those that may only make you wish you were dead.

Medicine—to the extent that it can be called a science—is a sensual science, one in which we collect data about a patient through touch and the other senses according to a systematic method in order to make a diagnosis.

It is much more important to know what kind of patient has the disease than what sort of disease the person has," Osler instructed his trainees at the turn of the twentieth century.

How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital? The patients get better and leave.

A medieval physician needed the patient's astronomical details, just as a modern GP would check his or her blood pressure.

examination of the lungs shows a frothy white substance," says Dr. Backmann. "This is consistent

Diagnosis has

I put the word diagnosis in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a diagnosis led to a cure, or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore an enforced, debility.

Froehlich's syndrome

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

The doctor asks the patient what is wrong, and then the patient asks the doctor what is wrong.

La nostra nevrosi, amico mio, è un prodotto del nostro modo di vivere un po' troppo artistico; ma è anche una fatale eredità, che la civiltà rende di generazione in generazione sempre più onerosa. Se vogliamo diagnosticare lo stato del nostro temperamento dobbiamo annoverarci fra quelli che soffrono di una nevrosi la cui origine è già molto lontana.

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.