Diagnosis Quotes

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis. (Karl Kraus)
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. View quote
Martin H. Fischer
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. View quote
Teri Garr
He was raised without a proper diagnosis. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
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. View quote
Kate Millett
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. View quote
John W. Gardner
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews, and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. View quote
Marshall B. Rosenberg
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician. (Andrew Weil)
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease. View quote
Andrew Weil
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed. View quote
Andrew Weil
My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse. View quote
Tim Burton
An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient. View quote
Barbara Brennan
In my clinical practice, the one diagnosis I always dreaded giving was Alzheimer's. Billions have been spent on research, but there's still neither a cure nor an effective treatment. View quote
Michael Greger
Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life. View quote
Rosalynn Carter
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. View quote
Paul Dudley White
Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007. View quote
Charlie Kimball
I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called 'Diagnosis: Unknown.' View quote
Cote de Pablo
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live. (Eleanor Clift)
People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward. View quote
Greg Louganis
When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor. View quote
Hawa Abdi
My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one. View quote
Jim Beaver
I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer' comes out of his mouth, at that point, it changes your life and you do fear less and it also has allowed me to be a lot more open as a person. It's changed me. View quote
Joe Lhota