A man of wit and clinical wisdom
2008; BMJ; Volume: 336; Issue: 7658 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.39610.608368.59
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Empathy and Medical Education
ResumoOne does not turn to medical journals for the delights of literature, or for blinding shafts of insight conveyed by aphorism. No one expects a double-decker bus to perform like a Maserati: which is not, of course, to denigrate double-decker buses. They are good at what they do. The British endocrinologist and haematologist Richard Asher (1912-69), however, managed to combine wit and clinical wisdom with literary felicity. He it was who first thought of the adventures of Baron Munchausen in connection with that small group of patients who go from hospital to hospital with tales of dramatic symptomatology. I was pottering about my books the other day, as old men do, when I pulled …
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