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Article: OBITUARY BILL PATERSON; Medical centre will remain doctor's legacy
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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THE last surviving doctor of the three who established the
Richmond Medical Centre in Cambridge St, Dr William Irvine (Bill)
Paterson, died recently, aged 96.
With John Shearer and Leo Hannah, he established the centre after
World War II. They set up a thriving family-centred general
practice, their foresight vindicated, with the medical centre still
on its original site.
Born in Pahiatua in 1912, the son of Scottish migrants, Hugh and
Mary Paterson, Bill Paterson completed his secondary education at
Nelson College, where he won the prestigious Morrow Prize for Poetry
in 1929.
He then, somewhat reluctantly, followed his father's footsteps
into medicine, gaining his degree from Otago ...