From GP to bishop via intensive care: ‘Scary’ ride for top cleric

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From GP to bishop via intensive care: ‘Scary’ ride for top cleric

Ruth
Nicola
Brown
Steve Bedford
Anglican Bishop of Dunedin Stephen Benford says medicine and church work have similarities

Ruth Brown talks to a former Ōamaru GP, turned London vicar, turned bishop

For about four years I was vacillating from day to day whether to go back to medicine or do church work Choosing the church over med­icine was a