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

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.
Karen Duffy

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.
Michael Schiavo

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
Martin H. Fischer

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
Eleanor Clift

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
Elaine Paige

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.'
Scott Baio

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
Teri Garr

In diagnosis think of the easy first.
Martin H. Fischer

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.
Olympia Snowe

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

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

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
David Foster Wallace

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

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
Kate Millett