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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 he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet.
Richard Asher describió por primera vez en 1951, bajo el título de síndrome de Munchausen, un cuadro caracterizado por el abuso de consultas hospitalarias a raíz de falsos y significativos padecimientos, que por sus características promovían estudios en ocasiones cruentos y tratamientos médicos innecesarios. 1 La presentación se basó ...
El Síndrome de Munchausen, consiste en una simulación repetida de enfermedes fisicas, usualmente agudas, aparatosas, y convincentes, efectuadas por una persona que vaga de un hospital a otro en busca de tratamiento. Esta enfermedad se caracteriza por inventarse dolencias ficticias o incluso provocárselas a sí mismo, para llamar la atención ...
The Seven Sins of Medicine, by Richard Asher, are a perspective on medical ethics first published in The Lancet in 1949.
10 de jun. de 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.
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.
13 de nov. de 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.
