Quotes About Prognosis

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. But this opinion of mine, like that of every other economist who has pronounced upon the subject, is in itself completely uninteresting. What counts in any attempt at social prognosis is not the Yes or No that sums up the facts and arguments which lead up to it but those facts and arguments themselves.

I want to ask him how much he expects to take.

Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.

If you expect nothing you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

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

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.

You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like.

When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.

I don't think you can predict success, but you get a feeling if something's going to be good or bad.

The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.

As adults, these kids are mostly what you'd expect. Low IQ and poor cognitive skills. Problems with forming attachments, often bordering on autistic. Anxiety and depression galore. The longer the institutionalization, the worse the prognosis.

I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.

Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances they've faced - a terminal diagnosis, bad news, poor prognosis - and also the most joyful times with people, like the birth of a new baby.

The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view of human nature. This diagnosis leads to the prognosis that all we need to do to solve the terrorism problem is to create societies that are less poor, better educated and have more opportunities.

The main reason why clinicians may not diagnose personality disorders is that they think that doing so supports therapeutic pessimism. Recent research has shown this is not true; most patients get better, either with time or with treatment, that the prognosis is actually better than in many patients with severe mood and anxiety disorders.

investigation into the future can make it possible to avoid unpleasant events.

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.

No diagnosis, no prognosis.