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

Enough Shame Burden Mental Illness Secrecy Diagnosis

“Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.”

Long Term Simple Results Serious Late Consequence Cancer Long Term Related Breasts Diagnosis Breast Cancer Cancer Survivor Painless Breast Cancer Survivor

Author:Olympia Snowe

“The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?”

Art Problem Reality Irony Diagnosis

Author:David Foster Wallace

“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.”

Ifs Mean Matter Healing Steps Disease Doctors Outcomes Resolution Crucial Physicians Diagnosis

Author:Andrew Weil

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

Ifs Healing Economy Doomed Diagnosis Personal Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.”

Said Results Son Curse Diagnosis Your Son Pharaohs

Author:Tim Burton

“Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.”

Has Beens Reality Faces Turns Numbers Promise Taste Bones Crash Could Have Been Diagnosis Faded Marrow Transplants Puncture Bone Marrow

Author:Jenny Downham

“If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.”

Ifs Years Persons Moments Christ Rooms Deals Taken Right Now Ten Bills Gates Diagnosis Krishna Hesitation

Author:Michael J. Fox

“What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Said Real Play Games Behinds Violence Danger Treats Patient Labels Diagnosis Therapists Borderline

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.”

Jobs Moving Loss Cry Possibility Embrace Instinct Driven This Life Glorious Spite Hopeful Shore Tides Frightening New Life Diagnosis Resolute Debris Tilt

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”

Needs Expression Communication Judgment Criticism Anger Tragic Diagnosis Nonviolent Communication Unmet Needs

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“He was raised without a proper diagnosis.”

Raised Diagnosis

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.”

Self Diagnosis

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.”

Summer Stupidity Diagnosis Summer Sun

Book:Ocean of Secrets

Source: Ocean of Secrets

“I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)”

Firsts Dies Three Stage Months Periods Miracle Cancer Broads Congratulations Outlines Diagnosis Thirteen Three Months Augustus Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis

Author:John Green

“Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.”

“[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.”

Persons Names Diagnosis

Book:Out of my mind

Source: Out of my mind

“One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).”

“I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Done Deserve Treats Luck Atheist Cancer Strikes Diagnosis Bad Luck Why Me Cancer Diagnosis

Author:Iain Banks

“He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.”

Patient Diagnosis

Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

“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.”

Knows Mind Children States Able Science Purpose Order Limits Normal Intellectual Capacity Intelligent Regard Diagnosis Retarded Unanswered Prognosis

Book:Works on Psychometrics

Source: Works on Psychometrics

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.”

Life Inspirational Spirit Certain Attitude Trouble Effects Gratitude Disease Poison Invasion Diagnosis Vaccines Soothing Smitten Grumbling Disgruntled

Author:John Henry Jowett

“The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.”

Individual Destruction Bullying Bully Trails Diagnosis Bullied Livelihood Serials Sociopath Devastation Indicators Clinicals Being Bullied

Author:Tim Field

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

May Acceptance Negative Deny Diagnosis Verdict

Author:Norman Cousins

“I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.”

Thinking Years Problem School Science Teach Approach Research Doctors Valuable Medical Diagnosis Medical School Valuable Things

Author:Gertrude B. Elion

“We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.”

Should Made Strong Wish Lord Plans Divine Masters Integrity Essentials Weakness Remarkable Treatment Shore Tested Assurance Discouraged Shortcomings Diagnosis Cords

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.”

Ignorance Treatment Physicians Diagnosis

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we know, the reports that are out, to question the issue and to question whether we need to move forward at a much stronger pace as humankind to address the issues.”

Knows Needs Moving Science Energy Issues Clear Environment Bases Stronger Climate Change Moving Forward Reports Addresses Pace Humankind Immoral Diagnosis Unequivocal

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.”

Humans Jobs Dies Surprise Cancer Diagnosis Breast Cancer Surprise Me Breast Cancer Survivor Breast Cancer Inspiration Breast Cancer Inspirational Cancer Diagnosis

Author:Edie Falco

“The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.”

Children Burden Ease Memorable Treatment Intervention Diagnosis

Author:Beverly Sills

“Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.”

People Inspiration Motivation Depth Illness Mental Illness Healthcare Richness Diagnosis

Author:Elyn Saks

“If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'”

Ifs Thinking Shows Brother Murder Racist Episodes Diagnosis Victoria

Author:Scott Baio

“I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.”

Way Remember Treatment Diagnosis

Author:Maura Tierney

“There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.”

Source: Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

“You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.”

Believe Diagnosis Prognosis

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.”

Thinking Mind Cancer Like Me Shock Breasts Staying Diagnosis Breast Cancer Mammograms

Author:Sheryl Crow

“I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.”

Said Stage Doctors Edges Cancer Discussion Vegetarian Mainstream Doctor Who Headings Diagnosis Holistic Blown Away Over The Edge Prostate Prostate Cancer

Author:Michael Dorn

“As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.”

“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.”

Ifs Way Religious Simple White Groups Mass Murder Males Enterprise Minorities Disability Attributes Killers Diagnosis Despicable General Public Shooter Culpability

Author:Ari Ne'eman

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

Levels Cancer Swimming Diagnosis Cancer Diagnosis

Author:Eric Shanteau

“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.”

Want Prayer Support Week Six Cancer Heal Faster Breasts Overwhelming Diagnosis Breast Cancer Cancer Diagnosis Love Prayer

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.”

Mistake Mankind Possibility Evolution Accounts Victim Species Diagnosis Homo Sapiens Futility

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.”

Stills Sometimes Action Certain Waiting Chance Acting Wind Evolution Patient Cancer Physicians Uncertain Catching Diagnosis Back When

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.”

Trying Wisdom Diagnosis Verdict

Author:Norman Cousins

“To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The more you know the person, the harder it will be to empathize. Diagnoses and past experiences can instantly knock you off the board. This doesn't mean denying the past. Past experiences can stimulate what's alive in this moment. But are you present to what was alive then or what the person is feeling and needing in this moment?”

Knows Mean Persons Moments Feelings Past Psychology Alive Empathy Harder Boards Diagnosis Past Experiences

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.”

Accepting Diagnosis Bipolar

Author:Carrie Fisher

“When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.”

People Needs Compassion Communication Provoking Diagnosis Nonviolent Communication Defensiveness

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.”

Needs Expression Communication Judgment Criticism Interpretation Diagnosis Nonviolent Communication Judgment Of Others Unmet Needs

Book:Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

Source: Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

“Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.”

Way Shows Honest Communication Intellectual Criticism Insult Diagnosis Nonviolent Communication Implying

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.”

Language Responsibility Four Communication Demand Judgment Deserve Criticism Denial Analysis Comparison Diagnosis Nonviolent Communication Disconnection

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

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