Stuff.co.nz 12 May 2017 | It's been 70 years since a young Esme Green decided she wanted to be a nurse.
The year was 1947 and the 20-year-old dressmaker was living in Otahuhu when a new south Auckland hospital opened its doors on May 3.
She told her parents her plan and within a few months she had become Middlemore Hospital's first trainee nurse, doing "all the work no-one else wanted to do".
