Richard Asher Quotes

• For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

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  Science   Doctors   Careers  

  British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)

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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.

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  Greek   Modern   Describing  

  British Medical Journal 2: 359 (1959)

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• 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.

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  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.

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  Recovery   Surgery   Discomfort  

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

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• Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

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  Hope   Science   Dope  

  Lancet I: 954 (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.

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  Sympathy   Expression   Smooth  

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

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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.

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  Science   Nurse   Bed  

  British Medical Journal 2: 697 (1947)

  3798

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