Quotes About Diagnosis

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

I had hip surgery in America because I'd had problems during my last two years in Europe. They said out there that my hip was broken and I didn't know about it.

When I was a junior in high school, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. To see her struggle and go through chemo, radiation and surgery, and all those things made a huge impact on us as a family.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

Hypnagogic and hypnopompic," he said, as if he was used to diagnosing the odd conditions of dinner companions like this all the time. "They're hallucinations that happen when you are falling asleep—hypnagogic—and when you wake up—hypnopompic." He'd had them too, he told me. And so had Vladimir Nabokov. He urged me to read Nabokov's description of them in his memoir, Speak Memory.

none of the tests performed thus far had revealed the true reason Akane had lost consciousness

At any given time in the U.S. penal system, at least half the inmate population have been diagnosed with some kind of mental illness.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.

I did not find, and don't believe today, that Holmes met accepted psychiatric criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia or its even more serious cousin, schizoaffective disorder, at the time of the shootings.

narcissistic personality disorder. This is the one you probably know something about. Its primary characteristics are grandiosity and lack of empathy.

One of the most important skills in my profession is prognosis, the prediction of what will happen to a patient going forward.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..

Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.