Cable, J Verney

Born Wellington 24 Mar 1908 Died Dannevirke 15 Mar 2005
Verney Cable
Educated at Wellington College and at Waitaki Boys’ High School
Awarded the Scott Memorial Medal in anatomy, the Christie Medal in applied anatomy, the Graduates’ Association Medal in clinical medicine, the Batchelor Memorial Medal in obstetrics and gynaecology and the Marjorie McCallum medal.
Anatomy Demonstrator, Otago Medical School 1932
Locum HS, Masterton Hospital 1933
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1933 – 1934
Medical Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1935
HP, The City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Lungs, Victoria Park 1935 – 1937
HP, Redhill Hospital, Edgeware 1937
RMO, The National Heart Hospital, London 1938 – 1940
Medical Registrar, Dudley Road Municipal Hospital, Birmingham 1940
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Otago Medical School 1941 – 1942
WW2 service 1943 – 1946 with 2NZEF in 3 NZ Hospital, initially in Cairo, then in Italy
Resident Physician, Wellington Hospital 15/3/1946 – 1974
(He ceased to be ‘resident’ in 1957, though remained full-time)
Fulbright Lecturer in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts General Hospital) for 6 months in 1954
Undertook the first cardiac catheterisation at Wellington Hospital on 14/12/1951
Performed the first haemodialysis in Australasia in 1958, and founded the Renal Unit at Wellington Hospital in 1964.
Physician, Silverstream Hospital 1974 – 1982
Medical Superintendent, Silverstream Hospital 1979
President, NZ Japan Society 1965 – 1968
photograph courtesy Wellington Hospital photographic archive
Obituary: NZMJ 2005 118:1505