Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.
Interpretation
The time leading up to a medical diagnosis can be excruciatingly stressful, highlighting the vulnerability of patients.
This quote by David Rakoff emphasizes the emotional turmoil and anxiety that often accompany the period before receiving a medical diagnosis. The reference to being called a 'patient' upon wearing a hospital bracelet signifies a transition into a state of uncertainty and the burden of waiting, which can feel torturous as one grapples with fear and anticipation regarding their health.
In practice
During a health seminar, this quote can be used to discuss the emotional impact of waiting for medical results.
Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.
Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better.
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator.
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.
Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.