Recognised for major improvements to Māori healthcare

His high school careers advisor told him he would be wasting his time if he chose to study medicine and he initially pursued a commerce degree at Victoria University of Wellington. However, after two years there, John Armstrong decided that accounting and economics weren’t what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.

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