Asking Quote by Janusz Korczak

“The most challenging aspect of prognostication is that our complex world is deeply uncertain and becoming increasingly so.”

— Roger Spitz

“A diagnosis is not a prognosis unless you let it be.”

— John Passaro

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to…

— Diane Frolov

“If you take one thing from this book let it be this: even the dying are alive. If you're a reader with a life…

— Hannah Hodgson

“In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.”

— Hippocrates

When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must…

— Claude Bernard

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

— Deepak Chopra

“Before you examine the body of a patient, Be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, You will also come…

— Suzy Kassem

“In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Everyone may agree upon the diagnosis, but not everyone may consent to the therapy. Indeed, for healing, things have to be sacrificed at times…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Pain is a constant reminder of our mortality”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

— Jodi Rell