Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

I was diagnosed with hypertension when I was 24, and I battled hypertension for about 10 to 12 years, and then I went to the doctor for something else, and he found that I had high levels of protein in my urine, and that's how I found out I had kidney disease.

There's no way my body can be fixed, but what we can hope to do is keep all the deteriorative processes as minimal as possible.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

A few months before my dad died, his eyes had started to go, and his skin was turning green. When he finally went to hospital, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. None of us kids knew why the old man ignored the doctors and refused their help, but none of us were surprised, either.

The best thing when you get pneumonia is rest - that's it, just rest.

I unfortunately tested positive for Lynch Syndrome, so I have been checked at least annually and sometimes twice a year.

Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.

The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.

My diagnosis had been discussed in almost every major medical journal, including the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' and 'The New York Times.'

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

I never had concussion issues. What I have is cervical spinal stenosis.

Aging is just like any deterioration of the body. It fulfills every category of what we call a disease except one: it impacts more than half the population.

I don't have cancer, I just have a tumour.

I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.

if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

That's all they said was wrong with me?

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.