College Roll
We celebrate the achievements of our esteemed physicians, their stories and their impact on medicine, communities and patients.
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Carl Furner was a kind physician, gentle in nature, a man of quiet physical and moral strength. He neither used alcohol nor smoked tobacco. He would say he preferred not to burn his lungs, but put the money into fast cars in which he loved to burn up the road.
Carl came from Goulburn where he attended King's College School. At the University of Sydney while studying medicine, he won a blue for athletics, winning the open mile in 1916 and setting a record that lasted over twenty years. I first met him in a military camp at Rutherford in May 1940. One night he invited me to his home in Newcastle and I was driven in a beautifu...