Jul 15, 2020
FALSE FRIENDS SPANISH, FRENCH AND PORTUGESE …
If you are an English speaker, and are trying to speak Spanish or Portugese or Francaise, you would be tempted by cognates which mean the same in either language and…
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Jul 15, 2020
LOTS OF DISCOURSES ON HAPPINESS… HOW ABOUT LIVING IT ?
By an immense stroke of luck, I was able to spend an extended period of time in Southern Sweden. I had left Australia where I felt so secure about our…
Jul 15, 2020
LITTLE DOCTORS AND NURSES OF CUBA , TEACHING THEIR FELLOW PUBLIC ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES
Kindergarten students demonstrating the proper way to cough to their classmates in Bayamo, Cuba. They are dressed as Health Care Professionals. Cuba has one of the best PUBLIC HEALTH systems…
Jul 15, 2020
A WORD OF ADVICE TO PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS,,,,,, REGARDING PATIENT CARE IN THE COMING DECADES …LEARN TO BE GOOD GARDENERS AND NOT SHOPKEEPERS
In his powerful book, the influential Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harari argues that within a decade or two, the role of the primary care provider would become redundant as more…
Jul 15, 2020
LHASA DE SELA. ANYWHERE ON THE ROAD. A LOVELY SONG OF NOSTALGIA
One thing I have learned through this self isolation of Covid 19 is that there are an awful lot of unhappy people in this world and most of them do…
Jul 15, 2020
WALK IN SOMEONE’S MOCCASINS.. A GOOD TIP FOR BALANCE OF MIND
You see people getting angry at each other, for some silly infraction or not.. remember... Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins . He who…
Jul 15, 2020
THE NEGLECTED GLOBAL PANDEMIC: UNCONTROLLED,GALLOPING OBESITY ALL OVER THE WORLD
EMORY University School of Medicine is providing an educational session in SPANISH for the multitudes of Health Care Providers in Latin America about OBESITY. I listened to it today as…
Jul 15, 2020
A GOOD DAY FOR NATIVE AMERICA
Supreme Court rules much of Eastern Oklahoma is tribal land Landmark case upholds claim by Muscogee Nation the territory, now home to 1.8 million people, is Native American land. The…
Jun 15, 2020
AFTER TEN WEEKS OF HOME ISOLATION, THE FIRST BREATH OF NATURE MIAMI
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF DR. FAIRCHILD I had read two about and by him and had visited many of the places he had been and thought of the time he…
Jun 15, 2020
IRAN IN MY HEART, ALWAYS AND IT SHOULD BE IN YOUR HEARTS TOO… LISTEN TO THIS VIDEO
My love for Iran is as old as myself, from stories transmitted to me as a child some of which I remember. While a teenager, on a exchange course of…
Jun 15, 2020
WHY IS THAT CUBAN MEDICAL MAGNANIMITY NOT COVERED BY THE MEDIA ?
Cuba sends medical brigades to Kuwait and Guinea Conakry It makes the other countries feel SMALL that they are not WILLING to help poor countries and also countries in need…
Jun 15, 2020
TEDMED TALK ON GENERIC MEDICATIONS.
This investigative reporting about Generic Drugs is deeply disturbing. It was on TedMed, a forum very highly respected and the lecture was given by an investigator who spent years trying…