Obituary for Dr. Morton Walker
Many long-time readers will remember my father’s column, “Medical Journalist Report of Innovative Biologics,” in the Townsend Letter starting back in the early days of this informative publication. My father, who always introduced himself as “Dr. Morton Walker,” came along at a time when holistic medicine needed a voice and a champion. He picked up that sword, a sword disguised as a pen, a tape recorder, and a typewriter, and willingly joined the fight for natural alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs and surgery. At that time there was no Internet; all publicity had to be gotten through the print media, books, magazines, and sometimes newspapers. And there was bad publicity also; anyone fighting for holistic medicine could expect to be defamed, doctors and journalists alike, because natural medicine was under attack from all sides. Many well-meaning conventional doctors and government regulators tasked themselves with the mission that the public needed to be protected from the kooks and quacks who advocated and acted on their theories that the human body greatly benefits from the addition of natural substances that enhance its inherent healing mechanisms. There was an orchestrated attempt to silence these practitioners.
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