Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Asher

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British scientist Richard Asher.

Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Richard Alan John Asher, FRCP was an eminent British endocrinologist and haematologist. As the senior physician responsible for the mental observation ward at the Central Middlesex Hospital he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet.

British - Scientist | April 3, 1912 - April 25, 1969

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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 Asher

It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.

Richard Asher

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 Asher

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 Asher

Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

Richard Asher

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

Richard Asher

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Richard Asher

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Asher

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