Diagnosis Quotes

• A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Health, Three, Remedy

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• 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.

  John W. Gardner

  Ignorance, Simple, Two

  "A Nation Is Never Finished". ABA Journal, Volume 53, page 1011, November 1967.

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• Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

  William Osler

  Patient

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• The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Art, Lying, Psychology

  Harriet B. Braiker (2002). “The Type E* Woman: How to Overcome the Stress of Being Everything to Everybody”, p.19, iUniverse

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• 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

  Healing, Mean, Doctors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Prognosis

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• If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Economy, Personal Health

  "The Wrong Diagnosis". Article by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

  Edward Hodnett

  Mind, Asking The Right Questions, Inquiring

  Edward Hodnett (1955). “The art of problem solving: how to improve your methods”, Harper & Brothers

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• Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Prevention, Disease, Treatment

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• If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

  Edward Hodnett

  Success, Asking Questions, Mind

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• A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

  August Bier

  Mother, Smart, Health

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• More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

  Andrew Weil

  Physicians, Patient, Said

  Andrew Weil (2004). “Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

  Tony Alessandra

  Inspirational, Medicine, Selling

  Tony Alessandra, Phil Wexler, Anthony J. Alessandra, Rick Barrera (1992). “Non-Manipulative Selling”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

  Ann Richards

  Doctors, Giving, Needs

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

  Robert Graves

  Genius, Answers, Situation

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• When I went public with my breast cancer diagnosis six weeks ago, the overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support really helped me heal faster. I want to make sure to thank everyone.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Prayer, Cancer, Support

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• A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

  Jane Pauley

  Mental Illness, Shame, Enough

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• Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Manners, Substitutes, Bedside Manner

  "The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990". Book by Ronald D. Pasquariello, p. 103, 1991.

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• Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined.

  Avicenna

  Philosophy, Science, Medicine

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Health, Names, Balance

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

  Norman Cousins

  Acceptance, Negative, May

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• In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

  John Naisbitt

  Art, Mistake, Medicine

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• DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Pulse, Physicians

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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• I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.

  Hippocrates

  Science, Lessons, Clear

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• 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.

  Greg Louganis

  Moving, Years, People

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