Dr. W. I. Paterson To Be Director Of Outpatients

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29292, 25 August 1960, Page 14

Dr. W. I. Paterson To Be Director Of Outpatients

Dr. W. I. Paterson, deputyMedical Officer of Health in Christchurch since 1957, has been appointed director of outpatient services for the North Canterbury Hospital Board. The appointment, which is a new one. was announced at the

hospital board’s meeting yesterday. : It is expected that Dr. Paterson Will take up his new duties before the end of the year. As director of outpatient services for the hospital board. Dr.

Paterson will- have charge of the casualty and outpatient departments at Christchurch Hospital. He will be responsible for the admission and discharge of patients, and will supervise follow-up procedures with discharged- patients.

Dr. Paterson will also undertake the supervision of such extra-mural services as the hospital board may from time to time inaugurate, and will act as a liaison with general practitioners for hospital services.

Dr. Paterson, who is the son of a doctor, was boro at Pahia tua, and was educated at Pahiatua High School and Nelson College. On graduating from the Otago University Medical School in 1938, he assisted his father. Dr. Hugh' Paterson, in his general practice at Pahiatua. until the outbreak of World War 11, in 1939, when he enlisted. As he had had no house surgeon experience, Dr. Paterson was required to undertake house surgeon duties at the Waikato Hospital, until the end of 1941, and then left for overseas as a lieutenant in the New Zealand Army Medical Corps.

He served in the Pacific and in Italy with various medical units and returned to New Zealand at the end of the war with the rank of major. He then began in general medical practice at Richmond, near Nelson, before becoming assistantMedical Officer of Health in Dunedin In February, 1956. While there, he gained the Diploma of Public Health.

Dr. Paterson was appointed deputy-Medical Officer of Health in Christchurch in December. 1956, and took up his duties in the city in February, 1957.