Quotes About Diagnosis

It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess.

Like so many other high school discipline cases, he'd probably been given some hybrid cockamamie ADHD- bipolar diagnosis at a very young age and been medicated into submission for the benefit of his homeroom teacher. We've all read about them in the paper, the problem kids who get slapped with five disorders by the time they're twelve, and horse-pilled by a culture that has pathologized everything from PMS to teen angst.

My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer.

You are only one biopsy away from bankruptcy

December 13, 2011, Piscataway, New Jersey, on the road with the Lady Vols, seven months after diagnosis

Yes. It is. —June 23, 2012, at night driving from Henrietta back to Knoxville with the tape recorder off, thirteen months after diagnosis

The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness.

Because it can take two to even six years for a man to reach his PSA nadir after radiation, this initial "false rise" in PSA level after the hormonal therapy ends might lead to needless worry from a wrongful diagnosis

For every specific problem, lack of empathy is seen as the diagnosis and more empathy as the cure.

Our purpose (in relationship) is to get what we want but God's purpose is to give us what we really need. We think things are going well only if we are getting along with others. But God says that it is also when we are not getting along with others that he is accomplishing his purpose. God has designed our relationship to function as both a diagnosis and a cure.

How far was that? On March 1 he told us the chest x-ray looked clear, except for a shadow that was probably the pulmonary artery, but he was playing safe and ordering a CAT scan to make sure it wasn't a lymph node. Roger and I had lunch that day at the hospital cafeteria, in the prison-yard court on plastic chairs under a lowering sky. Roger said how glad he

To start with, a person is considered 'cured of cancer' if they don't die within five years of diagnosis.

We also learned the medical world calls a patient 'cured' if the cancer doesn't return within five years.

the cancer was in my lymph nodes and my doctor was afraid it had already spread.

Should not have accepted that their diagnosis was my truth.

psychiatrists would eventually decide that most mental disorders were caused by faulty chemistry in the brain, not bad parenting, bad morals, or horrible childhoods.

I once heard renowned traumatologist, John Briere, quip that if Cptsd were ever given its due, the DSM [The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders] used by all mental health professionals would shrink from its dictionary like size to the size of a thin pamphlet.

so that the almost universal occurrence of this symptom in chronic catarrh may be expected.

As a means of diagnosis only, I consider the value of the method to be on the whole as great as that of catheter ism; but the latter we shall, I think, find to be more efficacious in the treatment, than applicable in the investigation of disease.

Once you have a diagnosis, you must make several important decisions—not just regarding your treatment, although those choices are most important, but about your work, your finances, your family responsibilities, and the way in which a brain tumor will affect your perception of yourself and your relationships.

If you've recently learned that you have a brain tumor, keep this in mind: You are a statistic of one.

Vestibular schwannomas constitute less than 5 percent of all brain tumors.

The discovery of a brain tumor is a life-changing event that happens quickly, and for most people there is a surreal quality to the experience, even after a decision has been made about the best course of treatment.