The man Ken calls a fake Doctor.

Dr. Wortman is a Metis physician from northern Alberta. After working in the construction
industry for ten years he returned to school to obtain a BSc in Biology and Chemistry at the
UofA, an MD from the University of Calgary and training in family medicine at the
University of British Columbia. After a brief stint in general practice he began to work in
public health. He was the Associate Director of Sexually Transmitted Disease at the British
Columbia Centre for Disease Control for two years before joining Health Canada as a
program specialist in HIV/AIDS where he developed the Aboriginal component of the
National AIDS Strategy. During that time he also developed the Dr. Peter AIDS Diary, a
regular weekly television appearance by a young physician dying of AIDS which achieved
high acclaim and resulted in an Academy Award nomination for a documentary
compilation of the Diaries. For the past several years, Dr. Wortman has served in senior
management positions in the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada
where he is currently the Regional Director of the Pacific Region. He is presently on a
research interchange at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine where he is
studying the role of traditional diet in the prevention and treatment of obesity, metabolic
syndrome and type 2 diabetes in First Nations.
In 2003, Dr. Wortman received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the highest
honour bestowed by the Aboriginal community. Dr. Wortman lives in West Vancouver with
his wife and young son.