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August 23, 2023 Health Claims and Doses of Fish Oil Supplements in the US Joanna N. Assadourian, BSA 1 ; Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH 1 ; Samuel A. McDonald,…
In the all the various diets touted over the years which by their rate of failure is heard no more, it is always about some or other quantitative measure: calories…
When you are in Mexico, it does not take very long to realise the contribution of the indigenous people to the culture of Mexico. Unlike the predominantly protestant immigrant country…
A voyage of too many coincidences Coincidences do not exist, it shows our inability to understand it A short visit to Buenos Aires Miami to Panama to Montevideo, the awful…
A friend of mine jokingly once asked me: do you choose to fall in love with countries with peculiar problems or does it just happen? Myanmar, for instance. For a…
I am fortunate to visit USA to be with the indigenous people of that country and on arrival at JFK or Miami, the first thing that hits you, is the…
Many years ago, during a Psychiatry rotation (the only specialty where the Nurses Assistant knows as much as the Doctor, was my conclusion, even though I would have made a…
The Anthropologists of Cochin when was the last time you visited a town and ran ino a gaggle of anthropologists?? i am talking about the educated class of Cochin in…
It is one thing to be in a polemic country as USA which is divided right through the middle .. 50% fascist leaning and 50% wanting a just society and…
When I answer people's query about my imprecise profession, I mention International Medicine, they have visions of me, struggling through tropical rain forests or zones of conflicts in Africa! These…
Recuperating from the long trip from Kuala Lumpur to Miami, I decided to use the silence to incorporate some poems of Hafez into my life On the first night back…
Today has been a wonderful day for me in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, as each of the past few days have been. I do not wish to think of my…