Feb 15, 2021
I HAVE RECEIVED MY VACCINE.. SO THAT MY PATIENTS ARE SAFE..
I work for a special community and they were prioritized to receive vaccines for all the Health Care workers as well as all the members of the community. The Health…
Stories
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.
Feb 15, 2021
THE THREE STAGES OF WESTERN INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT.. my short summary
Western Intellectual thought does not denote thoughts of the Western people, but a strain of philosophy which was born and nurtured in the Western world, adopted as their own by…
Feb 15, 2021
OH POBRE MYANMAR/BIRMANIA… TAN LEJOS DE BUDDHA Y TAN CIRCA DE CHINA
The month had begun with convulsions in Myanmar/Burma, where the Military seeing their popularity and power slip, overthrew the popularly elected government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. During a…
Jan 15, 2021
A GOODBYE IN JANUARY OR IS IT A GOODBYE TO JANUARY 2021
Arcadia, Florida does not seem an appropriate place to say GOOD BYEs..there is a whisper of the gentle southern charm in the air, moss hanging fro trees, no longer do…
Jan 15, 2021
END OF AN ERA… WE HAD A GOOD TIME, DIDNT WE?
It has been a long haul.. long stretched out dinners full conversations late into the night.. catching up on the news of your dear friends.. spontaneously running into faces familiar…
Dec 15, 2020
IF YOU WANT RELIABLE AND TRUTHFUL NEWS, BE PREPARED TO PAY FOR IT
It was one of my professors of Medicine in Miami, Dr Howard Lessner, Olav ha shalom, who said to me: the drug companies would send you lots of free materials…
Dec 15, 2020
A SPECIAL DEATH: REMEMBERING THE MAHARAJAH OF SERI KEMBANGAN AND HIS TWO COURTIERS
A special death There are special deaths, but only Special people deserve that. Death comes out of season, said the Great Orator of the Omaha, The Little Elk. We can't…
Nov 15, 2020
PLEASE DO NOT COME TO CAMBODIA AND TELL PEOPLE NOT TO EAT RICE… WITHOUT CONTEXT WORDS HAVE NO MEANING (MERLEAU-PONTY)
NUTRITIONAL EXPERTS AND LACK OF CONTEXT I am an Endocrinologist, educated in London, Melbourne and Miami and that doe not mean I would be very successful in Siem Reap, Cambodia…
Nov 15, 2020
NOVEMBER 2, 2020 DIA DE LOS MUERTOS. TOUSSAINT EN FRANCE. REMEMBERING DEAR DEPARTED ONES IN CUBA BRASIL
From the BBC: Three ideas for how to live a fuller life By Roman Krznaric 28th October 2020 By reimagining our relationship with time – and coming to terms with…
Oct 15, 2020
BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, DO NOT BE UNHAPPY WITH WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE .. GOOD ADVICE TO REMEMBER FROM AN UMONHON INDIAN
Dr. MW and I have been friends since our medical student days, he and his wife G, would make every effort to get together during my brief passages through Miami…
Oct 15, 2020
PSYCHOLOGICAL PANDEMIC IN THE TIME OF CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC
DUNBAR NUMBER IN THE TIMES OF COVID This morning BBC Future had an article, How solitude and isolation can affect your social skills. Humans are deeply social creatures, so what…
Oct 15, 2020
GO FORTH WITH THE MOUNTAINS AND THE WINDS, DEAR FRIEND AND TEACHER, MAY KNOWLEDGE COME TO YOU
I am very busy, is a refrain one often hears, then i wonder what are they busy with ? I can imagine you are running a big corporation or a…
Oct 15, 2020
IDENTITIES WITHOUT BORDERS: LESSONS FROM MALAYSIA WITH GRATITUDE TO MY FRIENDS IN KUALA LUMPUR
IDENTITIES WITHOUT BORDERS Borders is what we create so that we can cocoon inside it and then feel comfortable in them with our fellow travelers. Currently I am reading a…
Oct 15, 2020
OH. INDIA. WHO CAN KNOW THEE? NOT EVEN “INDIANS”. THE WONDER OF THE PAST
This is a quite an impressive book. There is a six part series of a BBC documentary that goes with it. Lots of research has gone into unearthing the history…
Oct 15, 2020
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST ANTHROPOLOGIST IN THE DAYS OF SOCIAL ISOLATION 2020
Lately days are passing by as if covered in a veil of magic. I have seen so many happy people , and my own little island beckons me seductively. Reality…
Oct 15, 2020
OCTOBER 5 2019. TO OCTOBER 5 2020. GIVE ME THE EIGHTY DAYS OF LOVE
On the morning of October 5, 2019, I knew my. life was going to change, but did not expect so many changes. I am used to unexpected pleasures but this…
Sep 15, 2020
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO KNOW INDIA ?
When someone, especially a westerner who has spent some time roving around the subcontinent, says they know INDIA, I cant but smile. It is impossible to know INDIA, even for…
Sep 15, 2020
DOUBLE TREE BY HILTON MEMORIES AND REMINISCENCES AND HOPES FOR A QUICK RETURN
Over the course of years, I have been a loyal visitor to Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur and had become friends with many of the workers: concierge desk, Front…