Feb 15, 2014
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS !
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS I have been lucky to have been able to combine my profession (Medicine) , my passion (Anthropology) and Travel, almost always combining the three.…
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Medical Themes: <span>Medical Anthropology</span>
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Feb 15, 2014
NUTRITION, OVERWEIGHT, OBESITY AND CANCER AROUND THE WORLD
The Jakarta Post is an English Language newspaper published in Indonesia and as regional newspapers go it has less parochial and more of an international slant than Straits Times of…
Jan 15, 2014
CAN WEIGHT LOSS BE MAINTAINED OVER TIME? NOT IF YOU ARE AN ORDINARY AMERICAN
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES AND THEIR APPLICABILITY IN EVERY DAY LIFE Have you ever heard the term WEIRD? I do not mean it in the deviation from normal, sense of the word…
Jan 15, 2014
DO NOT OVERLOAD ON CARBOHYDRATES ON LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
A letter to my Carbohydrate Guru A Question on this first day of the year 2014 Can Champagne give you Hypoglycaemia? The breakfast, bought at the village market place, was…
Jan 15, 2014
CUBA AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE
Most westerners, americans of europeans, hardly know about the magnanimous Cuban efforts at Humanitarian Medicine. When people think of Humanitarian Medicine in the west, they think of flying out when…
Jan 15, 2014
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE HORSE, HAPPY LUNAR YEAR OF THE TET ..AND OF COURSE THE KICKAPOO NEW YEAR
HAPPY CONTENT YEAR OF THE HORSE FOR MY CHINESE FRIENDS PROSPEROUS LUNAR YEAR OF TET TO MY VIETNAMESE FRIENDS I was quite happy to obtain a ticket from Miami to…
Jan 15, 2014
CULTURAL DIVERSITY, NOW AND BEFORE IT WAS, MULTICULTURALISM
COULD CULTURAL DIVERSITY DISAPPEAR THE SAME WAY AS CROSS CULTURE AWARENESS WITH A SOCIAL ACTIVIST IN HANGA ROA While I was studying Anthropology in London, the buzzword of the day…
Jan 15, 2014
SYMBOLIC HEALING AMONG RAPA NUI
SYMBOLIC HEALING WHAT CAN WE LEARN IN RAPA NUI One of the pleasures of being trained as a Medical Anthropologist is to absorb with the vision you have been taught…
Jan 15, 2014
DOCTORING IN RAPA NUI
I was mulling over an email while walking towards the Church, at the end of the street. My friend in Miami was talking about Shlomo Carlebach whose name had been…
Dec 15, 2013
GRATITUDE LIST: HOW IT MAY HELP YOU!
GRATITUDE LIST ENHANCE ENJOYMENT OF BEING ALIVE Thinking of MM in BE, MC in KL, CL in CWB Do you have a mother, doctor? Yes, I do When was the…
Dec 15, 2013
OMAN IS A SPECIAL ARAB COUNTRY : RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A JEWISH TRAVELLER
WHY DO I TRAVEL TO OMAN WHY IS IT SO SPECIAL When I sent emails from Salalah, Oman on a recent stopover there, a good friend of mine asked: Why…
Dec 15, 2013
SPEND A MORNING WITH AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST AND READ WITH HIM
Eleven articles arrived on a peer reviewed Diabetes and Metabolism Journal this morning. What was very interesting to note was that the authors were not from the usual developed countries…