Robert Bruce DUNCAN   
MB ChB (NZ), FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Eng), FRACS
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Born Wellington 11/6/1920    Died Wellington 9/9/2004

MB ChB (NZ) 1943, FRCS (Edin) 1949, FRCS (Eng) 1951, FRACS 1962

HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1944 - 1945
Registrar, Eye and ENT, Wellington Hospital 1945 - 1947
SHO, Wellington Hospital 1948

Served with 2nd NZEF, J-Force 1946 - 1947

Postgraduate studies at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 1948
HS, then Registrar, Royal National Throat Hospital, London 1949 - 1951

ENT Surgeon, Wellington and Hutt Hospitals 1951 - 1962
Visiting ENT Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1962 - 1979
Visiting Otologist, Audiology Department, Wellington Hospital 1962 - 1979
Head of ENT Department, Wellington Hospital 1968 - 1976

Visiting Senior Otologist, Palmerston North Hospital 1980 - 1987
Retired from private practice in 1999
Major interest in allergy-related disease
Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy 1974 - 1994

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Obituary: NZMJ 2004 117:1129

photograph courtesy
Bruce Duncan