Prognosis Quotes

• You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Diagnosis

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• I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

  Bette Davis

  Thinking, Order, Negative

  "Fictional character: Judith". "Dark Victory", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Educational, Doe

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

  Paul Dudley White

  Practice Of Medicine, Important, Experience

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• When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Successful, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Guarantees, Knows

  "Elizabeth Edwards battles breast cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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• It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.

  Joan Robinson

  Next, Theory, Fulfilled

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.227, Academic Press

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• To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

  Janusz Korczak

  Baby, Pain, Giving

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• It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Vision, Als

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• The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.

  Lothar Hirneise

  Spiritual, Cancer, Survival

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• Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

  Richard Condon

  Psychiatric, Absolutely Nothing, Fascinating

  Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Age, Quality

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• For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Recovery, School, Kids

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• Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.

  Alfred Binet

  Children, Science, Intelligent

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Works on Psychometrics”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.

  James Hillman

  Perspective, Depth, Connections

  James Hillman (1975). “Loose Ends: Primary Papers in Archetypal Psychology”

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• If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

  Pauline Kael

  Hollywood, Use, Tissues

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Cancer, Recovery, Night

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• 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

  Diagnosis, Way, Profit

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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• [After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

  Gloria Estefan

  Recovery, Doctors, Poor

  "The Gayle King Show", October 23, 2006.

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• Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

  Peter Bergen

  Thinking, Long, Groups

  "The 'Manhunt' To Capture Osama Bin Laden". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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• What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.

  Alan Cohen

  Uplifting, Reflection, Doctors

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• When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Water, Together, Bombs

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