HOSPITAL POST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 204, 29 August 1936, Page 8

HOSPITAL POST

DR. ROBERTSON’S SUCCESS SERVICE DURING WAR Appointed assistant medical superintendant ot the Wellington Hospital subject to confirmation by the Department o( Health, Dr. G. 11. Robertson, M.D., M.Sc., M.R.C.P., of Wanganui, passed his final examination at the Otago Medical School in 1915. After resident experience at the Wellington and Christchurch Hospitals, he left for active service in the Great War in 1916. During the war, Dr. Robertson gained a wide experience as a regimental, ambulance, and military hospital officer. On his discharge from service in 1921 he was appointed medical superintendent to the Wanganui Hospital, and hjld that position until he went into private practice in 1925. As medical superintendent at the Wanganui Hospital he did the greater part of the emergency surgery as well as a fair proportion of the general surgery. Since March, 1925, he has carried on medical and surgical ! practice in Wanganui, and he has been a member of the honorary staff of the hospital as an honorary surgeon, except for a period of a little over a year, when he served as an honorary physician. Jn 1930 and 1931 he spent a year in intensive postgraduate study in Great Britain and Europe. The board also appointed Dr. J. F. Bradbury, M. 8., M.R.C.P., to the position of medical registrar of the hospital. Dr. Bradbury, who is a New Zealander, graduated in 1933. He spent nine months as a house surgeon in the Wellington Hospital, and in 1934 spent a further six months before leaving for England for a post-gradu-ate course. In September, 1934, he was appointed junior house physician at the Prince of Wales General Hospital, London, and he spent the last three months of 1935 taking courses under the fellowship of medicine. In January, 1936. he was appointed R.M.O. at the Children's Hospital, Hampstead, a position he held for six months.