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Jun 10, 2015 · A tribute to Richard Asher, an English physician and writer, who coined the term "Munchausen's Syndrome" and advocated for generalism and clarity in medicine. Learn about his life, work, style, and legacy from Seamus O'Mahony, a consultant physician in Cork.
Richard Asher was a physician and medical ethicist who published the Seven Sins of Medicine in The Lancet in 1949. The Seven Sins are a perspective on medical ethics that describe poor personal conduct by physicians or medical students, such as obscurity, cruelty, bad manners, and more.
Learn about Richard Asher, a physician who challenged conventional wisdom and improved medical practice with his insights and inventions. He was also a teacher, writer and president of the Clinical section of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Apr 29, 2016 · Richard Asher was a superb physician who changed medicine and psychiatry and left some important lessons that we still need to learn. One of the foremost medical thinkers of his time, his thinking was characterised by clear logical ideas.
Jan 26, 2002 · With this opening statement, Richard A J Asher began his classic description of Munchausen's syndrome in The Lancet in 1951. The son of a clergyman, Richard Asher was born in 1912 and trained at the London Hospital.
- Joanne Turner, Steven Reid
- 2002
The best of Dr Richard Asher’s entertaining and instructive articles and papers have been gathered into his book, Talking Sense About Medicine, allowing this eminent physician’s insightful musings and observations to be immortalised.
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