Mar 15, 2012
RELATIONSHIP MORE IMPORTANT THAN TECHNOLOGY
RELATIONSHIP MORE IMPORTANT THAN TECHNOLOGY WHEN IT COMES TO CARING FOR PATIENTS: A GOOD LESSON FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD When I try to talk to colleagues in the developing world…
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Medical Themes: <span>Medical Anthropology</span>
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Mar 15, 2012
Homage to an Indian Patient of Ours: Patience does produce results
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE NEVER GIVE UP ON A PATIENT OF YOURS AND IN FACT ON ANOTHER HUMAN BEING FOR THAT MATTER. About ten years ago,…
Feb 15, 2012
TRAVEL IS THE SADDEST OF ALL PLEASURES
I am looking out through the large glass window/door to the last vestiges of the last snow flakes,as it very rarely snows in Paris. But the past few days have…
Feb 15, 2012
welcome to Eagle Pass America.. 97% Spanish Speakers
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Welcome to Eagle Pass. Texas and the Hairstylist Olguita, from Mexico and the Pedi/Manicurist Heidi(Phuong) from Soc Trang, Vietnam. When you are…
Feb 15, 2012
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE, ITS TIME HAS COME : Yoga, Philosophical Counseling, Homeopathic Medications in addition to the Western Allopathic One
I am a Physician and most of my patients suffer from Chronic Diseases, most of them correctable if social situations permitted a greater autonomy for the patients. So I am…
Feb 15, 2012
FOOD INSECURITY AND POOR HEALTH. CAN DEPRESSION MAKE YOU CHOOSE BAD FOOD? ANXIETY ABOUT FOOD AND OBESITY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FOOD INSECURITY AND POOR HEALTH. CAN DEPRESSION MAKE YOU CHOOSE BAD FOOD? ANXIETY ABOUT FOOD AND OBESITY Two medical Journals in my…
Feb 15, 2012
ANTHROPOLOGICAL VISION OF SCIENCE : AN ANCIENT METHOD
NATURE DICTATES AND SCIENCE PROVES The role of the anthropologist is to act as a translator between cultures and thus make available concepts in a more appreciated and understandable form.…
Feb 15, 2012
HEROES OF OUR TIMES
I left Phnom Penh, Cambodia at around midnight last Friday and I am writing this at around midnight on this Friday, seven days later, in Eagle Pass, Texas, from the…
Feb 15, 2012
AMERICAN INDIANS DO NOT LIVE IN TIPIS OR WEAR FEATHER BONNETS
My Kickapoo sister recently moved into her new home, provided by the tribe. Not a handout mind you, but reward for the good management by the tribal elders and the…
Feb 15, 2012
I AM HAPPY TO BE A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO NATIVE AMERICANS
CHOOSE A CAREER TO SUIT YOUR PERSONALITY, NOT YOUR INCOME Thank God for the Indians (Los Indios de America) I had done particularly well in the latter years of my…
Feb 15, 2012
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND YOGA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: QUALITATIVE VS QUANTITATIVE Being Both a Physician and an Anthropologist, I can see the mechanism of problem solving among Physicians:…
Feb 15, 2012
Adieu Royaume udu Cambodge
what a lovely day this has been.. the thunder has arrived, they probably want to say good bye.. I called Kuching to say good bye to some friends there ...…