Retired GP Ben Gray has from sandal-wearing to teaching medical students how to dress.
Ben Gray retired from general practice late last year, after 35 years. Fiona Cassie from New Zealand Doctor charts his journey from long-haired Taranaki activist to GP advocate, trainer and academic.
It was a while before young GP Ben Gray gave in and started wearing socks to work.
The GP turned academic, sees some irony in the fact he’s now teaching dress code to the next generation of doctors.
“I wouldn’t have met any of the dress code that I’m recommending [to medical students],” says Dr Gray.
Sam Carr walked out of the Don Jail on a crisp autumn day in 1942. He had been living underground for two years, and detained for the previous month. While the Canadian government was concerned that Carr and his Communist comrades would hamper the war effort, this kind of disruption had not been their goal ever since Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Carr now wanted to mobilize the Canadian public advocating for conscription, no-strike pledges from unions, and the immediate invasion of Europe in order to preserve the “Workers’ Paradise.” And he would not stop there. Less than a month after his release from prison, Carr began recruiting spies for Soviet military intelligence.