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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 [4] he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet .
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.
The Seven Sins of Medicine, by Richard Asher, are a perspective on medical ethics first published in The Lancet in 1949.
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.
Jun 10, 2015 · The Royal Society of Medicine recently (3 November 2014 – 24 January 2015) held an exhibition called “Richard Asher (1912-1969): A Celebration”. Asher, an English physician and writer, is mainly unknown to those under fifty.
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.
Son of the Rev. Felix Asher of Brighton, who could not resist a good book, Richard Asher had a violinist and a ’cellist as aunt and uncle. He was born at Brighton, educated at Lancing College and the London Hospital, qualified in 1935 and was then house physician to Donald Hunter.
