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Ken Walker (physician)
Kenneth Francis Walker (28 February 1924 – 1 July 2025) was a Canadian medical writer, celebrity doctor, obstetrician, gynecologist and abortion practitioner. As an author and columnist, he published under the pen name W. Gifford-Jones, M.D.
Walker was born in 1924 in Croydon, England to Walter and Annie Walker. His family moved to Canada when he was 3 years old, first settling in Montreal and then in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Walker earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1950.
He received his surgical training at the University of Rochester and McGill University as well as Harvard Medical School. Early in his career he was variously a family doctor, hotel doctor at the Manoir Richelieu Hotel at Murray Bay, Quebec, and ship’s surgeon. On his first Atlantic crossing he relieved the captain of his command due to illness.
He then established a practice as gynecological surgeon in Niagara Falls and was appointed to the staff at Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto General Hospital.
Walker adopted the Gifford-Jones pseudonym when he wrote his first book in 1961, Hysterectomy: A Book for the Patient, due to the College of Physicians and Surgeons which ruled he could not publish a medical book under his own name as this would constitute advertising for patients and was not permitted under the college's rules. He is the author of a total of ten books, all written under the Gifford-Jones pen name, the last being published in 2024 when he was 100 years old.
As W. Gifford-Jones, MD, he launched his column "The Doctor Game" in the Globe and Mail in 1975. It was syndicated to over 40 newspapers by the end of the 1970s.
The column appeared in the Globe and Mail until 1989 when it moved to the Toronto Sun. At its peak it was syndicated to over 85 newspapers in Canada, 300 newspapers in the United States, including the Chicago Sun-Times, and newspapers in Europe. He also wrote ten books, was a senior editor of Canadian Doctor magazine, and a regular contributor to Fifty Plus magazine.
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Ken Walker (physician)
Kenneth Francis Walker (28 February 1924 – 1 July 2025) was a Canadian medical writer, celebrity doctor, obstetrician, gynecologist and abortion practitioner. As an author and columnist, he published under the pen name W. Gifford-Jones, M.D.
Walker was born in 1924 in Croydon, England to Walter and Annie Walker. His family moved to Canada when he was 3 years old, first settling in Montreal and then in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Walker earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1950.
He received his surgical training at the University of Rochester and McGill University as well as Harvard Medical School. Early in his career he was variously a family doctor, hotel doctor at the Manoir Richelieu Hotel at Murray Bay, Quebec, and ship’s surgeon. On his first Atlantic crossing he relieved the captain of his command due to illness.
He then established a practice as gynecological surgeon in Niagara Falls and was appointed to the staff at Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto General Hospital.
Walker adopted the Gifford-Jones pseudonym when he wrote his first book in 1961, Hysterectomy: A Book for the Patient, due to the College of Physicians and Surgeons which ruled he could not publish a medical book under his own name as this would constitute advertising for patients and was not permitted under the college's rules. He is the author of a total of ten books, all written under the Gifford-Jones pen name, the last being published in 2024 when he was 100 years old.
As W. Gifford-Jones, MD, he launched his column "The Doctor Game" in the Globe and Mail in 1975. It was syndicated to over 40 newspapers by the end of the 1970s.
The column appeared in the Globe and Mail until 1989 when it moved to the Toronto Sun. At its peak it was syndicated to over 85 newspapers in Canada, 300 newspapers in the United States, including the Chicago Sun-Times, and newspapers in Europe. He also wrote ten books, was a senior editor of Canadian Doctor magazine, and a regular contributor to Fifty Plus magazine.