Quotes About Diagnosis

Hervey Cleckley, M.D., from The Mask of Sanity

Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not 'broken.' Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.

One of my rules in consulting is simple: never solve the problem I am asked to solve. Why such a counterintuitive rule? Because, invariably, the problem I am asked to solve is not the real, fundamental, root problem. It is usually a symptom. Just

in some women heavy coffee drinking can cause little fatty cysts to develop in breast tissue because of the caffeine. This can sometimes throw off a mammogram reading.

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

REFERENCE RANGES FOR CHLORIDE Chloride (mmol/L) Category Greater than 108 High (Hypercholremia) 97 to 108 Normal Less than 97 Low (Hypocholremia)

Although optimal BUN levels can vary according to a person's age and gender, the generally accepted "normal" range is 6 to 20 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). Values less than 6 mg/dL are considered low, and values over 20 mg/dL are considered high. There is no optimal value for this lab.

REFERENCE RANGES FOR GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE (GFR) GFR (mL/min) Severity of Kidney Damage 90 to 120 with no evidence of kidney damage Normal Greater than 90 with evidence of kidney damage Stage 1 (Beginning of kidney damage) 60 to 89 Stage 2 (Mild kidney damage) 30 to 59 Stage 3 (Moderate kidney damage) 15 to 29 Stage 4 (Severe kidney damage) Less than 15 Stage 5 (Kidney failure)

REFERENCE RANGES FOR TOTAL PROTEIN Total Protein (g/dL) Category Greater than 8.0 High 6.5 to 8.0 Normal Less than 6.5 Low Target Range: 7.2 to 7.5 g/dL

REFERENCE RANGES FOR ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE (ALP) Category ALP Normal Range (IU/L) Men 15 to 20 years old 45 to 400 Men 20 to 60 years old 25 to 150 Men 60 to 100 years old 25 to 160 Women 15 to 20 years old 45 to 400 Women 20 to 60 years old 25 to 150 Women 60 to 100 years old 25 to 165 Target Range for Both Men and Women: 72.5 IU/L

The relatively new field of "adolescent medicine" focuses not only on the traditional medical model of diagnosis and treatment, but, perhaps more than any other subspecialty of medicine, on education and prevention.

Jung deu um nome ao seu tipo de mulher. Um nome que não ajuda muito. A doença é bem pior do que o nome..." "Que nome é esse?", perguntei-lhe. "Não é costume dizer aos enfermos os nomes das suas doenças.

But Paul has a problem. He has a tumor in the right frontal lobe of his brain, about the size of a hen's egg.

Is she schizophrenic?" Joel asked. "I don't think so. For the most part, she understands reality and does not engage in false beliefs, with the exception of an occasional bout of paranoia. She does not hear voices. It is difficult to determine how she would act in social settings since she has not been released from here. But, no, I do not diagnose your mother as schizophrenic. Severely depressed, yes.

but it became rapidly clear he was gravely ill, probably from a brain tumor.

A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.

WHAT IF Stalin himself was the problem, though, and communism might be salvaged with different leadership? The men who sought to succeed him all believed the diagnosis to be accurate and the prescription to be appropriate. Each of them set out to liberate Marxism-Leninism from the legacy of Stalinism. They found, though, that the two were inextricably intertwined: that to try to separate one from another risked killing both.

Miner had seen influenza often. He diagnosed the disease as influenza. But he had never seen influenza like this. This was violent, rapid in its progress through the body, and sometimes lethal. This influenza killed. Soon dozens of his patients—the strongest, the healthiest, the most robust people in the county—were being struck down as suddenly as if they had been shot.

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

But why bother with diagnoses at all, if a diagnosis is but a restatement of the problem?

Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

First, it must be determined whether the illness is yin or yang, then the facial colors will indicate the location of the disease, and finally the voice and breathing will confirm the nature of the suffering. "When

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written language, is a proof of insanity, so insanity diagnosed in a sonata seemed to him as mysterious a thing as the insanity of a dog or a horse, although instances may be observed of these.