Health Assessment Quotes

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

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.

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"

I had to take a physical to do this show. They had a lot of weird questions like, "Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?"

Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.

You can't judge a family's health by the form it's in at a given moment.

The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.

I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'.

Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?” He made no response. “The same amount of terrible?

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

It's so important that people get tested and find out what they're allergic to, because they might be struggling with their weight or health issues and not realize that they're actually just allergic to the food they're eating.

You cannot look at someone and say they are unhealthy. You are not a doctor, and if you were, you'd realize why that's silly.

I've been frozen for 30 years. I've got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

“Healthy" and “diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.