You're Going to Do What?

"You're going to do what?" His wife's startled question says it all. But when
Dr. Ken Walker (W. Gifford-Jones) sat down to write a book, neither he nor his
wife foresaw the problems that lay ahead. Ken Walker has been hotel doctor,
ship's surgeon, family physician, surgical specialist, syndicated medical
journalist, and maverick. For 25 years his weekly newspaper column has reached
five million readers in Canada. And his common-sensical, folksy style has
endeared him to many. But few people know the price he's paid for refusing to
sit on the fence about controversial social issues. This book tells what it's
like to be a syndicated medical journalist. How it's been the best and the
worst of times. How the experience has shaped his thinking on the grave
problems facing patients and society. 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. How renowned organizations sometimes distort the truth. Clark
Davey, former managing editor of the Globe and Mail, warned Ken Walker that
life would never be the same once he started writing a newspaper column. It
never has been.