Aug 15, 2017
Purpose in Life and HEALTH
I remember the Nobel Prize winner British writer, VS Naipaul saying: when you do not have a project in life, it tends to become boring. I have a chance to…
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Medical Themes: <span>Medical Anthropology</span>
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Aug 15, 2017
CUBAN ENDOCRINE SOCIETY INVITES YOU TO THEIR ANNUAL MEETING. NOV 8-10, LA HABANA, CUBA
An excellent opportunity to Visit CUBA! An opportunity to meet Cuban Clinicians and Researchers. Topics covered are Endocrine Diseases as well as Reproductive Health in women with Diabetes. I am…
Aug 15, 2017
AMERICA THE ANGRY, AMERICA THE UNFRIENDLY, AMERICA THE UNWELCOMING
I have never felt unwelcome in this country and I have been coming in and out of the country with certain regularity for more than twenty years. My reason to…
Aug 15, 2017
CUBA IT IS TIME TO VISIT THE TREASURE OF CUBA: ITS PEOPLE
It is a great pleasure for me to show my favourite country to visiting people. In the last year, I have had multiple visitors including some friends from my university…
Jul 15, 2017
FRENCH ARE LEARNING ENGLISH SO TIME TO POLISH YOUR FRENCH
Two things stood out on my recent trip to PARIS.. Unlike the disdain the locals exhibited towards English, majority of the people I encountered were speaking English! No more, pas…
Jul 15, 2017
MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE ALONE IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO HEAL THE CONCERNS OF THE PATIENT
Medical Knowledge ALONE is not sufficient to heal Most people suffer from Illnesses and the medical profession objectifies those symptoms elicited and then gives it a name, and it becomes…
Jul 15, 2017
SOUTH KOREAN NURSING STUDENTS VISIT A NATIVE INDIAN HEALTH CLINIC
9 South Korean Nursing Students from Pusan, South Korea spent two days with us and many days with other members of the Health Department of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.…
Jul 15, 2017
QATAR A WELCOMING COUNTRY OF A MIXTURE OF HUNDRED NATIONALITIES
I am in Doha to show solidarity with the country, which is facing a diplomatic crisis, forced on them by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, all I suppose stalwarts…
Jun 15, 2017
Voicesfrom Cuba 16 June And Empty
VOICES FROM CUBA 16 JUNE AND THE EMPTY BOTTLE THAT MAKES TOO MUCH NOISE Trump announced some noises to the gracious changes by Obama to the failed Cuba policy of…
Jun 15, 2017
VOICES FROM CUBA JUNE 14 2017 HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMANDANTE CHE GUEVARA
VOICES FROM CUBA: 14 JUNE 2017 Happy Birthday Comandante CHE I left Havana on a night of that familiar downpours where the sky and the landscape become inseparable, my faithful…
Jun 15, 2017
DOCTOR LOOSES HIS BET WITH AN OMAHA INDIAN PATIENT IN A DEMONSTRATION OF SYMBOLIC HEALING
I love being with the Omaha Indians, some of whom are people I counsel about their health but most of them are my friends. I feel that they have a…
Jun 15, 2017
TRAVELS IN THE MONTH OF MAY 2017 : MEETING WITH EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: THE CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO QATAR
I have to do more justice to this meeting, however short it was, with the Cuban Ambassador to Qatar..I have to write in detail later.. except to say that HE…