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.
While we were reading Medicine at the University, we are taught about the glucose excursions after a meal, in such a fashion. A powerpoint goes up and the teacher explains:…
I have had the privilege of working with Indigenous peoples, in many countries around the world, and had become absorbed in to studying how to make their metabolism recover from…
Charshanbeh soori When did it all begin? The White Balloon ? or Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia an unlikely place for an introduction? Fire in all monotheistic religions, man is given the…
Regardless of which part of the world you live in, there is a slow slipping towards the right in body politics. Of course we will not talk about countries where…
This is my Blood Pressure before my meditation practice towards the end of the day. a Systolic BP of 112 is very decent and a diastolic of 79 is acceptable.…
Google Doodle celebrates surgical face mask inventor Dr. Wu Lien-teh's 142nd birthday Unfortunately, the good doctor's country of brith a century later did not do well with the Pandemic. At…
If you work more than 40 hours a week, you are either an economic slave or an inefficient worker who needs psychologic care .. We talk about efficiency but never…
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…
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…
The United States like other colonized countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and all of Latin America from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, do not have a good record…
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…
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…
It was March 18, 2020 and I had packed my bags and ready to go to the airport to leave the USA. My sister and her husband begged me to…
WHAT CAN WE DO NOW ? By the middle of January 2021, I would have completed the course of vaccination against Covid 19 Apart from Israel, no other country would…
HOW PRECIOUS THINGS ARE DAMAGED BY MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS Words are the greatest source of misunderstanding. And especially when one is reading in another language. I have never added a moral…
on 29th december 2020, the last full moon of the decade appears and as the Indians call it the winter moon or the moon that brings the winter.. I received…
This is a presentation I gave to a group of Visiting Nurses/Home Health Nurses. I will write commentaries on each of the slides and hope that many nurses get to…
Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon, was a precocious kid who once told his grandmother, who was fond of smoking, how to calculate the number of days of life lost by smoking.…
