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

  

  Eliot Spitzer
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  • Doctors
  • Patients

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

  

  Beverly Sills
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  • Burden
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• 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
  • Patients

• 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

• What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

  

  Sarah Chalke
  • Doctor
  • Heels
  • 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

• It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

  

  Barry Long
  • Truth
  • Discovered
  • Memorized

• Actually, when you're doing something you love, even when you're busy and it's hectic you don't feel the need to relax. I never used to take holidays and it would upset ex-wives and girlfriends, but working has me in a better mood than doing nothing.

  

  Al Murray
  • Working
  • Relax
  • Busy

• There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • King
  • Audiences
  • Sources

• A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

  

  Alaa Al Aswany
  • Different
  • Afraid
  • Racist

• I've devoted my life to football.

  

  Jordan Rodgers
  • Life
  • Football
  • Devoted

• 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