Dec 15, 2016
THE PHILOSOPHER DENTIST: YOUR CONVENIENCE IS MY PRIORITY
it was raining when I arrived at the most modern of Dental Laboratories in Asia at a town quite a bit away from Fort Cochin, soon a bus discharges the…
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Dec 15, 2016
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS : LIVING IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
I have just spent ten days with the Omaha, the original inhabitants of the State of Nebraska in the USA. They live in an isolated part of the world, but…
Dec 15, 2016
LIMINALITY OF CHARACTER OF CUBANS IN GENERAL : HAVANA AND MIAMI
When they talk about OPPRESSION or MARGINALIZATION the outsiders especially those with conservative point of view in Miami and elsewhere are thinking of the Politics in CUBA. Most people who…
Dec 15, 2016
Siemprecomandante In Australia I Was
#SIEMPRECOMANDANTE In Australia, I was aware of Fidel, Che and the Cuban Revolution. That love and admiration only increased during my stay in London to study Medicine. As luck would…
Dec 15, 2016
BOOKS AND TRAVELS OF AN ITINERANT ENDOCRINOLOGIST
I am reading an interesting book, Where the Earth Ends by John Harrison about his travels in Tierra del Fuego. I am spurred on while reading the book, having been…
Dec 15, 2016
Female vs Male Physicians: Better Outcomes?
Female vs Male Physicians: Better Outcomes? An early discovery as a Medical Student was that Women made excellent physicians, that I wanted to be looked after by one, when the…
Nov 15, 2016
CHOSEN PEOPLE IN GOD’S OWN COUNTRY
Mansoor and Amin are brothers from Alleppey and they have a modest shop in Jew Town. They are Muslims, but were very glad to know that me and my brothers…
Nov 15, 2016
THE JEWISH COCHIN: TWO MIZRACHI BROTHERS IN COCHIN NOVEMBER 2016
This is a pictorial essay of a recent visit to the JEWISH COUNTRY in the COCHIN area in Malabar/Kerala, INDIA. My brother Eliahu, was born in Bombay of Iraqi and…
Nov 15, 2016
THE BEST PLACE TO STAY IN FORT COCHIN WITH A LOVED ONE THE OLD LIGHTHOUSE BRISTOW HOTEL
This photographic essay would convey to you the spirit of hospitality, the ambiance of the Arabian sea kissing your front porch and the great Kerala food served by efficient waiters…
Nov 15, 2016
FOR DOCTORS :BE CAREFUL OF INTERPRETING WHAT YOU READ ON LINE ABOUT MEDICAL INFORMATION
BE CAREFUL OF INTERPRETING WHAT YOU READ ON LINE ABOUT MEDICAL INFORMATION I receive virtually hundreds of emails containing information about health, disease care, new discoveries and research. I always…
Oct 15, 2016
SPAM MAIL FROM POLAND C………..W@NEOHOUSE.PL
I noticed some unusual activity on my blog from Poland and wondered why on occasions I have my blogs being read in Poland, Belarus or Russia? A friend of mine…
Oct 15, 2016
HOME TO HOME HAVANA 1230 PM 25.9.2016 TO BRUSELAS/BRUXELLES 29.9.2016 1900
The day of departure from Havana is always sad, I had the feeling that this time around I will miss my Little Island more than the usual for various reasons.…
Oct 15, 2016
EAT TO MAKE YOUR DNA HAPPY: ANOTHER INNOVATION FROM DR GORDON BRUCE WALLACE OF WANTIRNA SOUTH IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
COOK FOR YOUR DNA My good friend Gordon with his wife recently visited La Habana, my current home. We had known each other since our days as Junior Doctors at…
Oct 15, 2016
THE TEDIOUS ITINERARY OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS
The tedious itinerary of a Physician Anthropologist Most of you will have absolutely no interest in this itinerary, I am putting this down on paper because I am so confused,…
Oct 15, 2016
A radio Interview with DURIAN ASEAN in KL in 2014 Misconceptions about JEWS JUDAISM and ISRAEL
During the early part of 2014, I had stopped by the synagogue in Yangon to pay my respects to Moshe Samuels the custodian of the once magnificent synagogue of the…
Oct 15, 2016
FORT COCHIN 5777 EREV YOM KIPUR.. AN ENJOYABLE EVENING WITH A SYRIAN ST THOMAS CHRISTIAN FAMILY
YOM KIPUR 5777 IN COCHIN, KERALA I am impressed with the Christian Community in Cochin, their fierce devotion to their faith but done in good faith and vigour. Chicken and…
Oct 15, 2016
YOM KIPUR IN COCHIN 5777 BREAKING THE FAST IN AN UNIQUE FASHION
It was the most unusual Yom Kipur, not planned at all that way. The night before I had begun the observance in the company of a delightful Syrian Christian Orthodox…
Oct 15, 2016
THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING QATAR AIRWAYS.. IT IS BECAUSE OF FRIENDS LIKE AKSAM ABUTAHIR
long before the new Hamad International Airport at Doha, Qatar opened, I was on my first flight aboard Qatar Airways QR. I remember it very clearly. I was flying from…