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  1. Richard Alan John Asher FRCP (3 April 1912 – 25 April 1969) 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Nov 13, 2020 · I recently came across the work of Dr Richard Asher who described Munchausen's syndrome. 1 He was a giant of his time, a well-known English physician of the 1930–1960s who wrote broadly on various topics that intersected with clinical medicine.

  5. Jul 5, 2008 · That Richard Asher had wit and clinical wisdom is not in dispute, but perhaps less well recognised is his undoubtedly cyclothymic temperament, and that had as much to do with his resignation as principle. 1 Pique about beds is perhaps a more apt description.

    • Martin W McNicol
    • 2008
  6. This essay aims to stimulate a reawakening of interest in the writings of the physician Richard Asher (1912-1969), who is now best known for coining the term "Munchausen's syndrome." Asher's essays are as relevant now as when first published.

  7. 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.