diagnose
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After Paul's death, Kate wrote to the health board to complain about how long it took to diagnose him with scabies.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
And it left me with a question: Why is our mental-health system so quick to diagnose and so slow to examine the full context of a person’s suffering?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
And he’ll undergo imaging to diagnose the injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Even if I were a doctor, I wouldn’t be able to diagnose him via random clips on the internet.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Take, for instance, the efforts at Cook County Hospital to help emergency room doctors better diagnose chest pain.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Pilots typically are required to undergo a medical screening at least once a year but face suspension of their licenses if they receive certain mental-health diagnoses or are prescribed related medication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Stage 4 diagnoses did fall, but Stage 3 diagnoses rose, possibly because cancers were being caught earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Helen said awareness of young onset dementia had grown since the 90s - but diagnoses still took too long.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
"What we found is that people diagnosed in recent years resemble the general population more closely than those who received the same diagnoses a decade ago."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Oskamp found that as he gave the psychologists more and more information about Kidd, their confidence in the accuracy of their diagnoses increased dramatically.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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She suffered repeated seizures, was diagnosed with a potentially fatal blood clot, and experienced wild swings in blood pressure.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
He diagnosed France’s fiscal problem quite simply – an inability to grow the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
He explained that a friend who has also been diagnosed with the disease has been sharing her journey and that has “helped ... so much.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
The veteran broadcaster had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in January 2023 and in the years that followed, was a prominent campaigner supporting assisted dying.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
And then I got diagnosed with depression, and I started on my first round of medication, and I couldn’t focus on the game at all.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Healthcare professionals “are often undertrained and ill-equipped in diagnosing elder abuse.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
I’m also a physician, trained in a profession that asks us to take action by identifying risk factors, diagnosing diseases, and intervening whenever possible.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
The larger challenge for Warsh is diagnosing what his predecessors got wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
These particles may offer new biomarkers for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and determining how far it has progressed.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
He had been diagnosing and treating the illness since he’d first set foot in Haiti.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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