Richard Asher Quotes

• 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

  Car, Design, Body

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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

  Richard Asher

  Recovery, Surgery, Discomfort

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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

  Richard Asher

  Greek, Modern, Describing

  British Medical Journal 2: 359 (1959)

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• 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

  Science, Nurse, Bed

  British Medical Journal 2: 697 (1947)

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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

  Science, Doctors, Careers

  British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)

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• 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

  Sympathy, Expression, Smooth

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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• Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

  Richard Asher

  Hope, Science, Dope

  Lancet I: 954 (1958)

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