Diagnosis Quotes

• Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.

  

  Adamo Macri
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Painting

• Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Envy
  • Diagnosis
  • Penis

• The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not “one of us”? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.

  

  Ari Ne'eman
  • Diagnosis
  • Killer
  • Shooter

• After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

  

  Eric Shanteau
  • Cancer
  • Swimming
  • Diagnosis

• I don't know the complete diagnosis. I just know I didn't tear anything, and that was the best news possible.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Best
  • News
  • Tear

• People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

  

  Charlotte Mew
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Disappointing

• Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Cancer
  • Diagnosis
  • Human Doctor

• And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

  

  Michael Schiavo
  • Picture
  • Stage
  • Doctor

• The salient question is whether the increasing awareness of heart disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

  

  Gary Taubes
  • Technology
  • Disease
  • Diagnosis

• I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.

  

  Walter White
  • Morning
  • Happens
  • Scared

• This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Protect
  • Treasure
  • Reminder

• I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

  

  Steve Gleason
  • Brain
  • Person
  • Muscles

• If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Confidence
  • Diagnosis
  • Prescriptions

• Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...

  

  Aimee Friedman
  • Summer
  • Stupidity
  • Diagnosis

• It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

  

  Walter White
  • Cancer
  • Said
  • Insightful

• Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Acceptance
  • Negative
  • Diagnosis

• Insurance companies require a DSM diagnosis for reimbursement, until recently all research funding was based on DSM diagnoses, and academic programs are organized around DSM categories.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Programs
  • Diagnosis
  • Insurance companies

• The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • Patient
  • Disaster
  • Diagnosis

• The way we define their problems, our diagnosis, will determine how we approach their care. Such patients typically receive five or six different unrelated diagnoses in the course of their psychiatric treatment. If their doctors focus on their mood swings, they will be defined as bipolar and prescribed lithium or valproate. If the professionals are most impressed with their despair, they will be told they are suffering from major depression and given antidepressants. If the doctors focus on their restlessness and lack of attention, they may be categorized as ADHD and treated with Ritalin or other stimulants. And if the clinic staff happens to take a trauma history, and the patient actually volunteers the relevant information, he or she might receive the diagnosis of PTSD. None of the diagnoses will be completely off the mark, and none of them will begin to meaningfully describe who these patients are and what they suffer from.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Care
  • Problems
  • Suffer

• Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.

  

  Dana Reeve
  • Thinking
  • Coming
  • Diagnosis

• In April 2013, a few weeks before DSM-V was formally released, NIMH director Thomas Insel announced that his agency could no longer support DSM’s “symptom-based diagnosis.”32 Instead the institute would focus its funding on what are called Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)33 to create a framework for studies that would cut across current diagnostic categories.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Support
  • Studies
  • Diagnosis

• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Acceptance
  • Diagnosis

• If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Wrong
  • Diagnosis
  • Prognosis

• One large study 127 sets of identical twins and 111 sets of fraternal twins recently found that in 51 percent of the identical sets both twins had ADD, while only 33 percent of those in the fraternal group shared the ADD diagnosis.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Study
  • Add
  • Twins

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