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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.
Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'
Check disease in its approach.
A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.
In diagnosis think of the easy first.
Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.
It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent; but some are plagued with the worse disease of mistaking the unobserved for the unobservable.
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
I had never expected medicine to be such a lawless, uncertain world. I wondered if the compulsive naming of parts, diseases, and chemical reactions - frenulum, otitis, glycolysis - was a mechanism invented by doctors to defend themselves against a largely unknowable sphere of knowledge.
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.
The clinician, no matter how venerable, must accept the fact that experience, voluminous as it might be, cannot be employed as a sensitive indicator of scientific validity,
The medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis.
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.
Are you insane?"
"Never diagnosed," the guy said.
At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?
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.
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.
Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great loss to the doctor as well as to the public.
Clinical descriptions and Epidemiology
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.
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do.
But as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
If you make a mistake, admit it. Any attempt at cover-up will ultimately backfire. At some level the patient will sense you are acting in bad faith, and therapy will suffer. Furthermore, an open admission of error is good model-setting for patients and another sign that they matter to you.
Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it.
Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far.
Doctors treat diseases, but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
A doctor is a man licensed to make grave mistakes.
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis ...
it makes medical error the third leading cause of death in the United States today, just behind heart disease and cancer.
He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.
Undiagnosed DID patients received incorrect diagnoses of schizophrenia in 25% to 40% of cases in two large series (Putnam, 1989; Ross, 1989), while in one stores 12% and in the other 16% had received electroconvulsive therapy.
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more emergency room visits and deaths due to legal prescription drugs than to illegal street drugs.6
In medical science, as in daily life, it was unwise to jump to conclusions
That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it.
Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.
Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.
Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
My readiness to admit to my fallibility is perhaps rather English, but I hope that the problems I describe will be familiar to doctors and patients everywhere.
Medicine is not a science; physicians must act. They must do the best they can, even when it is inadequate, even when they don't know all there is to know, even when there is nothing to do. So must we all.
But, Doctor, I'm not ill. Good God! I've told you everything".
Again his fixed his eyes on mine and stopped me, his voice full of resolve.
"You are ill. It is the fate we all share since the birth of psychoanalysis".
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.
The patient is the one with the disease
When it comes to screening, a doctor who says 'Let's err on the side of caution,' may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm.
Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.
How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.
Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
A kid shouldn't need a diagnosis to access help.
If you attach better services to a diagnostic category, some doctors will apply that diagnosis to children from whom it is not entirely appropriate in order to access those services.
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
If bravery is a medical condition, everybody's misdiagnosed me.
This is also the case with our disease-care system: it focuses on treating symptoms as if they were root causes, and as a result, it tends to choose interventions that completely ignore the true root causes and thus make it highly likely that symptoms will reappear.
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
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.
My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.
Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
He is an unskilful physician that cannot cure one disease without casting his patient into another.
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
the line between what clinicians can do well and what they cannot do at all well is not obvious, and certainly not obvious to them.
Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
If one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.
Experienced radiologists who evaluate chest X-rays as "normal" or "abnormal" contradict themselves 20% of the time when they see the same picture on separate occasions.
My own mental health issues had come and gone the same way, diagnosed nearly a hundred years ago as simple "hysteria," which only meant that I was a woman and really, who gave a shit what was actually wrong with me? Or
We have such a tendency to rush in, to fix things up with good advice. But we often fail to take the time to diagnose, to really, deeply understand the problem first.
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
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.
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom....
Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann's constant concern was, What if I have cancer?
The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.