Graham Gordon

Graham Rothwell Gordon (1927 to 2004) was a New Zealand general practitioner and surgeon from Stratford in Taranaki. The third son of two doctors who ran a family practice and a small private hospital, he was educated at Nelson College and the University of Otago, graduating in 1951, then trained and worked as a surgeon in the United Kingdom before returning to the Stratford practice in 1957. He was a part-time visiting surgeon at Stratford Hospital until its theatre closed in 1991, served as a police surgeon for over thirty years, and established the first rural general practitioner first-response road trauma service in New Zealand. He held office in the New Zealand Medical Association, chairing its council from 1977 to 1988 and serving as president from 1990 to 1991, and he sold his practice in 1999.