Medical Anxiety Quotes

I'm constantly taking my own blood pressure.

I told my wife I'm afraid to go back to the doctor because I'm afraid they're going to look at you and say: 'ma'am, just sell him for parts. It's like that old car that as soon as you fix one thing, something else goes out on it.

My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.

Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.

I'm scared of injections and needles.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.

I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!"

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.

I've always been the person at the table who is like, 'I have this weird rash. Anybody else have this?'

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

I basically walked around with a goiter for four years because I was so afraid of surgery.

I kind of have a phobia for the dentist's office.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

I had to go for a mammogram - my first mammogram ever - and It was really scary and I didn't know what to expect.

Needles. No needles for me, brother. I can't even watch when they get put into somebody else. I don't even get flu shots, none at all.

I'm afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that is always relevant to the woman's decision, and it may serve to confuse and punish her and to heighten her anxiety.

I have a lot of anxiety about medical things for example. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, but I'd had the practice when I went into shooting Synecdoche. It can be somewhat gratifying, too, because I don't have that relationship with other adults where I need to comfort them or they come to me for that.