John Fortescue ZOHRAB   
MB ChB (NZ) FRCS (Edin)
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Born Wellington 19.09.1902    Died Wellington 30.08.1959

MB ChB (NZ) 1925, FRCS (Edin) 1928

HS/HP, Wellington Hospital 1926/27
RSO, Radcliffe Infirmary, & Hertford County Hospital 1928/29
Returned to Wellington in 1930.

Honorary Visiting Anaesthetist, Wellington Hospital 1930 - 1932
Clinical Assistant, Orthopaedics, Wellington Hospital 1932 - 1936
Honorary Visiting Children's Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1936 - 1939
Visiting Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1940-1945

In 1945, with the return from active service of a number of surgeons, he would requested to take on an Assistant Surgeon role. He was unhappy to agree to this, so he resigned.   Thereafter, he remained in private surgical practice.

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John Zohrab

Obituary: NZMJ 1959 56:677

photograph courtesy
J O Mercer collection