Dr John Weston Smith obituary

In 1949 Dr Charles Goodlife invited my father, John Weston Smith, who has died aged 95, to join his GP practice in Tamworth, Staffordshire, as a junior partner, because he admired people with principles who kept to them.

John had been born in Kings Norton, Birmingham, the son of Florence (nee Jackson) and Harold Smith, both Christadelphians, a Christian group who base their beliefs solely on the Bible. At the age of 12 John decided that medicine was to be his career and, encouraged by his own GP, studied at Birmingham University medical school, graduating in 1944. His religious principles caused him difficulties when, after a series of obstetric hospital jobs, he began to apply for GP posts.

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