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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Doctor, John A

John Alexander DOCTOR

MB ChB (Glas) 1907, MD (Glas) 1924, FRCS (Edin) 1925

Born Glasgow 1883 Died 31 Dec 1980
J A Doctor
Medical education in Scotland, graduating in 1907
Postgraduate years in Glasgow
Came to NZ (via Australia) in 1911, setting up practice in Ross, South Westland
WW1 service with NZEF in France 1917
Post-war, GP in Featherston until 1923
Postgraduate training in Edinburgh 1923/24
Honorary Visiting Surgeon, EENT, Wellington Hospital 1926 – 1930, and 1943 – 1946

Obituary: NZMJ 1981 93:161
photograph courtesy J O Mercer collection