Common Sense Health with a 101 year old doctor with Dr. Ken Walker and Diana MacKay

Common sense, simple approaches will be discussed to help us on our paths towards optimal wellness and to help avoid chronic diseases.

About Dr. Walker

 Dr. Ken Walker (who writes under the pseudonym of Dr. W. Gifford-Jones, MD) is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Harvard Medical School. He trained in general surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University and in Gynecology at Harvard. His storied medical career began as a general practitioner, ship’s surgeon, and hotel doctor. For more than 40 years, he specialized in gynecology, devoting his practice to the formative issues of women’s health. In 1975, he launched his weekly medical column that has been published by national and local Canadian and U.S. newspapers. Today, the readership remains over seven million.

His advice contains a solid dose of common sense and he never sits on the fence with controversial issues. He is the author of at least ten books books including, “The Healthy Barmaid”, his autobiography “You’re Going To Do What?”, “What I Learned as a Medical Journalist”, and his latest book, “90+ How I Got There!”.  Many years ago, he was successful in a fight to legalize heroin to help ease the pain of terminal cancer patients

 

Diana Gifford Jones

Diana MacKay (who writes in collaboration with her father, under the pen name Diana Gifford-Jones has extensive global experience in health and healthcare policy  She served as a special advisor with the aga Khan University in Karachi  (a city I used to work in) and also worked for ten years in the Human Development sectors at the world Bank, including health policy  and economics, nutrition and population health.  For a decade, she managed health related executive networks at the conference Board of Canada including the roundtable on Socio Economic determinant of health, the centre for chronic disease prevention and Management, the Canadian centre for environmental health and the centre for health system design and management. She is the author of No Nonsense Health Naturally published in 2019.

 

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