A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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 skill...
I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led to a "cure," or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore an enforced, debility.
There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.
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...
It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism.
In diagnosis think of the easy first.
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...
Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the t...
... each day provided some tiny step forward, some steps so small you would miss them if you weren't looking. I'm always looking- eager to witness that next miracle.
A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?
A diagnosis is not a prognosis unless you let it be.
Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Continents of memory had been lost.
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
Doctor, I appreciate your diagnosis, but I will not accept your verdict
You are a deviant from the social norm!" "Is that an insult or a diagnosis?
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.
