Clinical eye
My clinical eye keeps returning to bodies, symptoms, food, metabolic health, care, and prevention.
About the doctor
I kept following the human story.
I am Dr Sudha Yehuda. My work has lived at the crossing point of medicine, anthropology, travel, food, ritual, memory, and friendship. This site gathers my field notes into a living archive - less a résumé, more a map of attention. The road has taken me through Havana, Miami, France, Qatar, Israel, Cochin, Kuala Lumpur, Siem Reap, and many ordinary places where people taught me how they live, suffer, eat, remember, and heal.
The lens
Medicine is never only clinical.
I have never been able to separate medicine from kitchens, families, grief, ritual, migration, poverty, friendship, faith, geography, or the stories people tell about their own bodies. Clinical medicine matters deeply, but it is only one part of healing. The rest is often found in food, social life, nature, memory, belonging, and the knowledge communities carry across generations. These notes follow those connections without stripping them of life.
Anthropological ear
My anthropological ear listens for context: culture, ritual, family systems, memory, colonial traces, and how communities understand healing.
Traveler’s instinct
My traveler’s instinct follows ordinary encounters - airports, homes, clinics, rivers, kitchens, ceremonies, and roads.
The person behind the archive
Not a sterile expert. A witness.
The best parts of the archive are alive because I was present inside them: curious, social, sometimes funny, often surprised, and willing to keep moving.
From archive to inquiry
The archive now asks for a second life.
These field notes are not only memory. They now shape field inquiries where medicine, culture, food, place, and community knowledge can be documented with care - beginning with metabolic health, food culture, and Indigenous knowledge in Suriname.
Begin
Start with the stories.
The biography is only the doorway. The archive is the real body of work.