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Richard Alan John Asher
(3 Apr 1912 - 25 Apr 1969)
English physician and writer who described and named Munchausen syndrome in the Lancet (1951).
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Science Quotes by Richard Alan John Asher (7)
Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.
— Richard Alan John Asher
Lancet (1958), 1, 954.
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
— Richard Alan John Asher
British Medical Journal (1958), 2, 502
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.
— Richard Alan John Asher
A Sense of Asher (1972), 86.
See also: | Symptom (6)
It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.
— Richard Alan John Asher
A Sense of Asher (1972), 86.
See also: | Surgery (20)
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.
— Richard Alan John Asher
British Medical Journal (1959) 2, 359.
The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.
— Richard Alan John Asher
A Sense of Asher (1972), 86.
Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack—to make a generally tidy appearance.
— Richard Alan John Asher
British Medical Journal (1947), 2, 967.
