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You're Going to Do What?: The Memoir of Dr. W. Gifford-Jones by Gifford-Jones, Dr. W. (Dr. Ken Walker)
Toronto: ECW Press, 2000 BRAND NEW First Edition, 1st Canadian Printing. New condition in all respects, no markings of any kind, unread, gift quality. 6" x 9", 267 pages, illustrated. For 25 years Dr. Ken Walker's weekly syndicated newspaper column reached 5 million readers in Canada. But few people know the price he paid for refusing to sit on the fence about social issues. This syndicated medical journalist writes about his life as a hotel doctor, ship's surgeon, family physician and surgical specialist. It's the inside story of his battle against huge odds to legalize heroin to ease the agony of terminal cancer pain - the toll it took on his family when he decided to perform legal abortions - and how renowned organizations sometimes distort the truth. . Soft Cover.
- Bookseller: Bruce McLeod
(CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 007586
- Format/binding: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 1550224255
- ISBN 13: 9781550224252
- Publisher: ECW Press
- Place: Toronto
- Date published: 2000
- Keywords: medicine Medical Biography Memoir Journalist s journalism canada canadian Drug Legalization Heroin Therapeutic Use Abortion Rights Debate For 25 years Dr. Ken Walker's weekly syndicated newspaper column reached 5 million readers in Canada. But few peo
- Subjects:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People of Color;
MEDICAL / General;
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