Quotes about Diagnosis

and for a swelling, rash, or spot,

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Although it's risky and hard, seek first to understand, or diagnose before you prescribe, is a correct principle manifest in many areas of life. It's the mark of all true professionals. It's critical for the optometrist, it's critical for the physician. You wouldn't have any confidence in a doctor's prescription unless you had confidence in the diagnosis.

We have such a tendency to rush in, to fix things up with good advice. But we often fail to take the time to diagnose, to really, deeply understand the problem first.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

In a community that gets life based on appearances, problems tend to be diagnosed in terms of how things appear.

What's wrong with the world? It's easy to probe the ills of the nation, the Church, and the planet and come up with a grave diagnosis... But it takes all the strength we can muster to stand at Mass and honestly say, 'I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do... Sin is not out there; it's deep inside you and me... What's wrong with the world? I am, because I sin, and my sins well up from the darkness in my own heart.