Steve Gleason (Stephen Michael Gleason) Quotes

A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

Steve Gleason

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Eternal
  • Fade

• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Fade

• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • History
  • Attention

• Doctors should have access to all scientifically sound information so that they can prescribe appropriate medication for their patients.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Information
  • Doctors
  • Patients

• The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Children
  • Burden
  • Memorable

• The media landscape around the world, and the marketing landscape in particular, are radically changing at an incredible pace. Bob and his gang at R/GA have helped bring a vision of what the future is and what the possibilities are in reaching our patients and our customers.

  

  Brian Perkins
  • Vision
  • Changing
  • Customers

• It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Doctors
  • Believed
  • Diseases

• I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Man
  • Fade
  • Bolivian

• Fade into Bolivian, I guess.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Fade
  • Bolivian

• Night, when words fade and things come alive.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Night
  • Words
  • Fade

• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

  

  John Calvin
  • Disease
  • Cure
  • Patients

• I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Shoulders
  • Diagnosis
  • Insulting

• “For patients to claim a right to any procedures they wish is to challenge a conscientious physician’s integrity as a physician.”

  

  Edmund Pellegrino
  • Claim
  • Patients
  • Physician

• Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

  

  Allen Frances
  • Judgment
  • Diagnosis
  • Objectives

• An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

  

  Barbara Brennan
  • Patient
  • Statement
  • Diagnosis

• As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.

  

  Chica Umino
  • Heart
  • Deep
  • Memories

• You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

  

  Armand Trousseau
  • Treat
  • Heal
  • Patients

• I have met countless patients who told me that they “are” bipolar or borderline or that they “have” PTSD, as if they had been sentenced to remain in an underground dungeon for the rest of their lives, like the Count of Monte Cristo. None of these diagnoses takes into account the unusual talents that many of our patients develop or the creative energies they have mustered to survive.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Talents
  • Patients
  • Energies

• The lack of literature on the topic was a handicap, but my great teacher, Elvin Semrad, had taught us to be skeptical about textbooks. We had only one real textbook, he said: our patients. We should trust only what we could learn from them—and from our own experience.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Teacher
  • Literature

• ...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heaven
  • Qualities
  • Conduct

• I need to go towards the illogical. This world we live in destroys us. It is always governed by the same laws. You have to create images that don’t belong to it. That are totally different from those it presents us.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Laws
  • Images
  • Destroys

• The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Roots
  • Dirt

• Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Natural
  • Function
  • Arise

• A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

  

  Steve Gleason
  • Patients
  • Diagnosis
  • Fade