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.
Long time ago I had visited Iquitos on the Peruvian Amazon while I was a student in Miami and had been wanting to go to the Amazon: Colombian and Brasilian…
I was requested to present an Introduction to Microbiome and its effect upon (or vice versa) on the Kidney diseases at a health fair being held at a tribal auditorium…
After a disastrous New Years Eve party in the home of a neighbour in Havana in 2016, I ha decided I would choose carefully where I wish to be at…
I do not make my travel plans far in advance and this time of the year is dreadful for spontaneous travel. I wanted to go from Miami to Brussels, spend…
It is not very often that I quote another article verbatim as the one below. A while ago, I was talking to my colleagues and when I mentioned that Inflammation…
I was not prepared for this weather -4 C .. I had left the balmy Havana streets and the parque and my good friends and I arrived at Omaha Airport…
I am waiting to check in to Georgian Airlines counter which does not open for another hour or so at Terminal 2 D, the poor cousin to the other luxurious…
I used to be a loyal Delta Airlines flier and when they changed their Frequent Flier programme, I switched to United Airlines and when they devalued their programme switched to…
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0 0 1 355 2027 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 16 4 2378 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LA NOCHE DE LA HABANA HAVANA NIGHTS…
My first flight with Qatar Airways was in February 2014, I think: IAH DOH CGK DOH BRU. Since then I have made every attempt to fly QR Qatar Airways when…
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0 0 1 475 2712 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 22 6 3181 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Coming Home to Havana The flight from…
I do not remember when my love affair with DT in KL began! I had been visiting KL on a regular basis since 2008, but almost always stayed at my…
Average traveller in the USA has become accustomed to accepting poor service (American Airlines staffed by Grandmas, as described by HE Al-Bakr CEO of Qatar Airways, my favoured airline) or…
After a very pleasant two days in Fort Cochin, I was about to leave Cochin, Kerala in India for Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. I handed my passport to the middle…
INDIA is the source of both Patanjali and Buddha; of Yoga and Ayurveda.. an immense resource for your soul. In a place like Fort Cochin, one can feel the spiritual…
When I left my home in La Habana, Cuba for Miami, the day before I was to take QR 778 to Doha, I was already full of anticipation, as is…
