Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Embracing Self-Employment: A Path to Work Satisfaction and Happiness In the bustling economy of the United States, a significant 10% of the workforce has embraced self-employment, translating to approximately 15…
I like my language very much and fascinated by the etymology of the myriad of words that has entered the English language through conquest of and conquest by the British…
This is what I feel like today, this Sunday, on a beautiful afternoon in Miami, while keeping my fingers on the pulse of the hearts of my friends in Iran,…
I have never been too fond of the transition from 31 December to 1 January. It is not looked forward to, nor have I any great memories of those days…
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…
I never thought I would cry for you, Carlos Alberto! I am sitting in my room, at a seaside village in Bretagne in the West of France, not that far…
It is 2 am in Miami and the house is pleasantly quiet, there is no one here. I have been away from Miami for two weeks on a trip which…
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…
I am writing this from Monterrey, Mexico. Most people who do not know Mexico well would be surprised how Europeanised and well organised and clean the city is; With this…
I had come to Buenos Aires to visit a good friend of mine, whom I had known in La Habana, Cuba. He works as a front line doctor in the…
LAMENTO POR MI ISLA RICA, MI CUBA A lo largo de los años de visita a Baracoa, la primera ciudad de Cuba, fundada en 1511, tuve la fortuna de conocer…
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…
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…
Since the post-pandemic rush to travel took us to busier airports and congested aircrafts, the idea of having a preferred status has come into focus and also to learn about…
I have been extremely pleased with this stay at the Executive Lounge with an associated stay at a room nearby. I had arrived in KL from Havana/Miami with no specific…
