In Praise of Richard Asher

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 57 (4):512-523 (2014)
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Richard Asher was an English physician and writer. Born in Brighton, the son of a clergyman, he was educated at Lancing College and studied medicine at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1934. After various junior posts at the London and West Middlesex Hospitals, he was appointed physician at the Central Middlesex Hospital in 1943. The Central Middlesex was a former municipal hospital, and Asher was among a group of young consultants who transformed this medical backwater into a center with a high reputation for its clinical work, research, and teaching. Asher was a general physician..

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