Danielle Ofri famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sandeep Jauhar specializes in peeling back the veneer, revealing the discomfiting truths of todayâ€™s medical world. He is unafraid to dig deeply and honestly, both within himself and within the medical profession. Doctored raises critical questions that twenty-first-century medicine must answer if it is to meet the needs of its patients as well as of its practitioners.
-- Danielle Ofri

#World #Today #Medical
When a patient tells a doctor that every symptom is the most horrible ever - and the physical exam and labs are normal - we often suspect something psychological is going on. The symptoms aren't fake. They're physical manifestations of anxiety, depression, and stress. So while I'm always on the lookout for a serious underlying disease.
-- Danielle Ofri

#Stress #Fake #Anxiety
Doctors are taught in medical school that people ususally underreport their alcohol and drug use, so we genreal double the amount we're told. Don't be insulted if your doctor asks follow-up questions about yout drinking. We're trying to be diligent so we don't miss an alcohol or drug disorfer that could be amenable to treatment.
-- Danielle Ofri

#Drinking #School #People
It's so important that your doctor take a patience's values, not his, into consideration, along with the risks and benefits of treatment when there is a question to a doctor "What would you do?".
-- Danielle Ofri

#Risk #Important #Consideration
Being a doctor, I worry that the patient may be uncomfortable about sharing something. It could be sexual dysfunction, an eating disorder, depression, domestic violence - these are serious topics many people don't want to talk about. I'll try to follow up with questions like: How are things at home? How's work? But we don't always have time to probe. Don't be afraid to bring up the important things going on in your life, even if they don't feel 'medical.' Your doctor would rather know than not know.
-- Danielle Ofri

#Home #People #Worry

A divided heart loses both worlds.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

Danielle Ofri famous quotes

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