UK stint a highlight in 54-year career

A job offer from the surgeon who carried out the UK’s first heart transplant led to one of the best experiences in a Dunedin nurse’s 54-year career.

Day surgery unit clinical co-ordinator Pam Nichols is set to retire on Friday, ending a career based mainly at Dunedin Hospital — but including a decade-long stint working in London with some of the global pioneers of cardiac surgery.

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