In as much as today’s readers are advancing in age like my father, I am also thinking about those who have departed – those who traveled with my father through the 1950s and his early medical practice, the 1960s and 1970s during his pioneering days for women’s health, the 1980s and his campaign for better pain management, and then the last decades of his life when he fought against big pharma’s grip on the medical establishment. You are missed. While my father had a few
choice words for the editors who fired him, I have nothing but gratitude for those who have kept me on. I have thanks, too, for all the people in the natural health community who provided my father with an enormous extended family – from the retailers coast to coast to the health-conscious consumers who continue to prove that Mother Nature is a healing force like no other. My father was a Harvard-trained medical doctor and surgeon who did not like being told lies as the
answers to challenging questions. This made his controversial stands on modern medicine well worth observing. Whereas I am better described as a connector of people and ideas. What often amazes me is how narrow-minded people can be, readily jumping to conclusions on very little information. If I have my father’s luck and determination, there will be another 43 years ahead of me until I write my final column, like he did a year ago. I’m looking forward and trust a good many of you are
too. Please keep your letters coming. And again, my deepest thanks. Join me at 5 p.m. Eastern on July 2 for recollections of Dr. W. Gifford-Jones. Contact me for the link at diana@docgiff.com. This column offers opinions on health and wellness, not personal medical advice.
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Big Pharma again, got it.
Not sure if this is like a memorial or a live chat? 5 p.m. Eastern July 2 sounds random lol. Also “natural health” people always say Mother Nature heals everything but then my aunt still needed surgery so idk.
“Pain management” is the part I care about. Are they saying he fought big pharma like for opioids or something? The article reads like a tribute letter and then suddenly there’s Harvard and controversies and I’m like… what exactly did he recommend? Probably just going to tune out because these natural health columns never have actual details.
Okay so Dr. W. Gifford-Jones was Harvard trained but also anti-big pharma and pioneers for women’s health… that’s a lot. I love that she says don’t tell lies and “keep the letters coming,” but honestly editors firing him?? sounds like politics not medicine. Also emailing for a link like diana@docgiff.com seems sketchy? I mean maybe fine, but still.