Jul 15, 2019
DELIGHTFUL MONTH OF TRAVEL. JULY 2019
It is 31 July 2019 and I recollect pleasantly what a wonderful month of travel it has been for me Began the month of July in La Havana being well…
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Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Jul 15, 2019
TURNING THE TABLES OF FRAUDSTERS . THIS TIME A LYFT DRIVER AT MIAMI AIRPORT
I had arrived on a flight from Havana to Miami International Airport and cleared the customs and immigration in record time. (I have Special Entry) I requested an Lyft driver…
Jul 15, 2019
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA 500 YEARS OLD . THE FEAST THAT NEVER ENDS
I have stolen the epithet the feast that never ends from Hemingway when he described his life in Paris. Living in La Habana I can understand the euphoria of being…
Jul 15, 2019
MARIE UNO AGED 24 YEARS BECOMES A DOCTOR IN CUBA
Marie Uno as I call her was born 10 Jan 1995 and at the age of 24.5 years, she will be have the licence to practise Medicine in Cuba accepted…
Jun 15, 2019
WHAT DOES A TROPICAL ENDOCRINOLOGIST DO IN SIEM REAP CAMBODIA
MAKE NEW FRIENDS OF COURSE .. The day begins of course with a nice breakfast.. But the time difference between Cuba and Cambodia is 11 hours, so I had to…
Jun 15, 2019
AH SO GOOD TO BE A ROVING AMBASSADOR FOR CUBA . A QUERY FROM ARGENTINA
Just last week I gave a talk at a conference in Havana, Cuba at the annual meeting of the Diabetes Association of Cuba as well as the Association of Latin…
Jun 15, 2019
A WONDERFUL RELAXING DAY IN SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA
Most visitors to Siem Reap are here to see the magnificent archeological ruins, Angkor Wat and hundreds of other hindu-buddhist temples dating back to 9th to 11th centuries. I am…
May 15, 2019
A VISITOR FROM THE SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF REGLA
For those wondering about the above named entity, it is not the newest nation in Africa but perhaps it is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere.. En otros…
May 15, 2019
DIABETES AS A SOCIAL ILLNESS AND THE DUNBAR NUMBER
A good friend of mine from South Dakota was once visiting Miami and remarked: You are a homeless doctor, but you are always First Class. My brother Eliyahu always prided…
May 15, 2019
GLOBAL HEALTH PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST . DOES THAT EXIST ?
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May 15, 2019
REMEMBERING ERIC HOBSWAM…. HOW TO BE LOYAL TO AN IDEA ..IN MY CASE TO CUBA
I became aware of Eric Hobsbawm, while preparing to give a series of lectures at the University of Havana. I had just his book: The Age of Extremes. I love…
Apr 15, 2019
HAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY TO MY LATEST PASSPORT .. TIME TO RENEW
I began travelling alone earlier in life than most people. I had always had the travel sensation imbedded in my heart even when I was in school. I began travelling…
Apr 15, 2019
OH POBRE MEXICO . SO FAR FROM GOD AND SO CLOSE TO UNITED STATES .
Lamented the late dictator Porfirio Diaz who ruled Mexico for over forty years in the beginning of 20th Century. Being so close to USA has the advantage for travellers who…
Mar 15, 2019
A WEEKEND IN MIAMI TO REST AFTER A ROUND THE WORLD TRIP
I had left my dual homes of Miami and Havana at the end of January for a trip that took me to a lot of places Brussels London Easter Island…
Mar 15, 2019
THE NIGHT HAS FALLEN OUTSIDE AND ALL OF US ARE THE SAME
The Malaysian Airline Lounge at KLIA 1 is an excellent place to wind down. I am sitting in their dining room, looking outside, where I can make out the skeletons…
Mar 15, 2019
THE MAGNIFICENT SCHWEDAGON PAGODA OF YANGON IN MYANMAR
If you visited just one site in all of Myanmar, it has to be the magnificent Shwedagon Pagoda. Each visit reveals something else of the mystery of this ancient and…
Feb 15, 2019
A COUPLE OF DAYS IN MIAMI . AND THANKS TO COLLEAGUES NICE FOOD AS WELL
The arrival to USA especially Miami after the short flight from Havana, just forty minutes..is educational and needs cultural comprehension. the language remains the same, people look the same and…
Feb 15, 2019
EASTER ISLAND TO PALERMO IN BUENOS AIRES AND A MATE HABIT IS BORN
Under a very hot sun, with only a slight breeze from the oceanfront just a few feet away, my good sister-friend from Rapa Nui and I were looking at the…