Dec 15, 2019
DECEMBER 5, 2019 TWO MONTH ANNIVERSARY
It was on October 5, 2019 that this buddhist monk appeared at the hotel where I was having a late breakfast, watching the calm Arabian Sea. Just the day before…
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.
Dec 15, 2019
BIENVENIDOS DR DIAZ WELCOME DR DIAZ .
Welcome, Dr. Diaz A former director of the National Institute of Endocrinology and a well respected academic came to my little flat in La Habana for dinner and spend a…
Nov 15, 2019
SIX DAYS IN SIEM REAP . A COLLECTOR OF STORIES
SIX DAYS IN SIEM REAP The collector of Stories In our lives, fewer STORIES come to us than if we were traveling or going in search of them. In six…
Nov 15, 2019
JOYOUS RETURN TO LA HABANA…. SUCH A SMOOTH JOURNEY
I always reach the Airport a little earlier than normal, mainly to have a nice breakfast at the Flagship Lounge of the American Airlines. 730 am An Uber driver by…
Nov 15, 2019
A PHOTO JOURNEY OF A LONG JOURNEY FROM SIEM REAP TO MIAMI
It is close to Midnight on Saturday 9 November 2019. It would be Noon on Sunday 10 November 2019 in Siem Reap, Cambodia It was 6AM on 7th November 2019…
Nov 15, 2019
KINDNESS OF GENTLE SIMPLE PEOPLE OF SIEM REAP ..I AM OVERWHELMED BY THEIR AFFECTIONS
Vagaries of airline schedules are such that it took me a long time to get to Siem Reap from Quiberon in France. After a rest and waiting out the stormy…
Oct 15, 2019
LONG BEFORE OCTOBER RETURNS… A POEM BY EMILY BRONTE
I have already quoted the poem in another blog.. but today is 29 October and tomorrow 30 October.. Both pleasant days of October Especially this October which has been more…
Oct 15, 2019
LEAVING BRISTOW’S LIGHTHOUSE BUNGALOW IN FORT COCHIN, KERALA, INDIA
I had a delightful 10 day stay at the only hotel facing the Arabian Sea at the historic town of Fort Cochin, near the Indian city of Ernakulum in Kerala,…
Sep 15, 2019
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND MORTALITY IN RICH AND POOR COUNTRIES
The bigger killer of human beings all across the world is Cardiovascular Diseases and in this study it has been pointed out that the MORTALITY from Cardiovascular Diseases (DEATH) is…
Sep 15, 2019
A MAGICAL DAY AT THE SLOVENIA-ITALY-AUSTRIA BORDER OF MOUNTAINS AND LAKES
I was visiting my friends BB and D who live in a small village of Sankt Mikael near the small town of Bleiburg along the Austrian alps. Both are natives…
Sep 15, 2019
CAN PLASTICS CAUSE TYPE 2 DIABETES? YES OF COURSE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Can Plastics cause Diabetes? Asked a prominent British Endocrine Researcher. The audience was aghast, such a relationship was unthinkable. Of course now…
Sep 15, 2019
THE FEASTS OF HAVANA CUBA : A GLIMPSE OF LIVES HAPPILY LIVED
After I had delivered a talk at the annual conference of Endocrinology in 2019, an Argentine doctor said she needed an explanation: This is my first visit to Cuba, she…
Sep 15, 2019
HAVANA IS TRULY AN UNENDING FEAST: A DELIGHTFUL WEEK IN SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA
I had been looking forward to my return to the island, with a brief sojourn in Miami where I enjoyed spending a couple of days in the Everglades National Park.…
Sep 15, 2019
DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
When I was finishing my post graduate studies in Medicine (Endocrinology) my contemporaries were busy scouting for future residences and private practices. I was intent on an International Career which…
Aug 15, 2019
HOW TO READ A MEDICAL ARTICLE WITH A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL EYE?
HOW TO READ A MEDICAL ARTICLE WITH A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL EYE? A total of 41 studies published between 1963 and 2018 were included, of which 40 were classified as safe…
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…
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
THINKING OF GENOMICS . SNP AND MAURITS van PELT MOPOTSYO.org
An advantage of having an independent medical practice, that is no office, no calls, no appointments is that one is free to read voraciously and put into practice judiciously what…