Misdiagnoses Quotes & Sayings

people who had neglected my acquaintance during my widowhood. Widows were skeletons at the feast, dampening everyone else's pleasure, — Deanna Raybourn

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day. — Marion Dudley Cran

When it's right, it's simple. — Stephanie Perkins

In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later, that figure had doubled. Now the number is in the thousands. Yet Dr. Bailey, considered one of the best neurologists in the country, had never heard of it. When we live in a time when the rate of misdiagnoses has shown no improvement since the 1930s, the lesson here is that it's important to always get a second opinion.
While he may be an excellent doctor in many respects, Dr. Bailey is also, in some ways, a perfect example of what is wrong with medicine. I was just a number to him (and if he saw thirty-five patients a day, as he told me, that means I was one of a very large number). He is a by-product of a defective system that forces neurologists to spend five minutes with X number of patients a day to maintain their bottom line. It's a bad system. Dr. Bailey is not the exception to the rule. He is the rule. — Susannah Cahalan

He took my hand and held it against his chest, Feel that? It beats for you. — Karli Perrin

Gruesome that nobody wants to go near it. Then you slip away." "But the Canning Master's family, — Adam Johnson

I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes. — Paul O'Grady

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later. — David A. Adler