Apr 15, 2026
A Physician-Anthropologist Among Indigenous Peoples
A reflection on medicine, anthropology, and long relationships with Indigenous communities around the world.
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, 2026
Spiritual Materialism: A Cross-Tradition Comparison
A comparative note on how different spiritual traditions warn against turning practice into ego.
Jan 15, 2026
France and My Introduction to Champagne
A personal note on France, Champagne, taste, and the cultural education of pleasure.
Nov 15, 2025
I Am an Exile Only Because I Have No Desire to Return
A meditation on Istanbul, memory, wandering, and the strange freedom of exile without nostalgia for return.
Nov 15, 2025
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly by Yehuda Kovesh MD (London), FRAI (London) A Frenchman’s Remark A French academician once observed: “English is a language that is…
Aug 15, 2025
The First Cuban Restaurant in Miami, with the Soul of 1960s Havana
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
Jul 15, 2025
Miami, Memory, and the Migration of Authoritarian Thinking. Miami, Memoria y la Migración del Pensamiento Autoritario
Miami, Memoria y la Migración del Pensamiento Autoritario. First in Spanish and then in English Soy australiano, pero mi vínculo con Miami, Florida, comenzó durante mis estudios de medicina y…
May 15, 2025
Jamaica, Many Years Later and Saudade por Tudo
A memory of Jamaica, saudade, and the emotional afterlife of places where one once lived.
Feb 15, 2025
Un Camino Simple Hacia la Felicidad
Una reflexión médico-antropológica sobre el yo, la sociedad, los falsos profetas y la búsqueda de un camino sencillo hacia la felicidad.
Feb 15, 2025
Quando e Como a Meditação Vipassana Entrou na Minha Visão de Mundo: Uma História Pessoal
Quando e Como a Meditação Vipassana Entrou na Minha Visão de Mundo: Uma História Pessoal Quem nunca ouviu falar da Ilha de Páscoa e dos lendários Moai? Devido ao seu…
Jan 15, 2025
Un Camino Simple Hacia la Felicidad
Una reflexión médico-antropológica sobre el yo, la sociedad, los falsos profetas y la búsqueda de un camino sencillo hacia la felicidad.
Jan 15, 2025
What Is International Medicine?
A physician-anthropologist’s definition of international medicine, beyond romance, rescue fantasy, and institutional cliché.
Jan 15, 2025
A Simple Path to Happiness
A medical-anthropological reflection on self, society, false prophets, and the search for a simple path to happiness.
Jan 15, 2025
Why Don’t You Stay?
A bilingual reflection on travel, belonging, and the question of why one does not simply stay.
Aug 15, 2024
A Note to Migrants: Which English-Speaking Country Is the Healthiest?
A note for migrants and health professionals considering where population health and wellbeing are strongest.
Aug 15, 2024
Goodbye Cuba and the Memories
A multilingual farewell to Cuba, friendship, memory, and the emotional tattoo left by Havana.
Jul 15, 2024
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO COMPASSION IN THIS WORLD WHETHER USA OR IRAN OR CUBA OR SUDAN OR YEMEN OR BANGLADESH ETC
This land used to be the city and dwelling place of compassionate companions. When did compassion come to its end? What has happened to all the rulers of the land?…
Jul 15, 2024
we need more social capital in all the countries .. life goes forward and not backwards
This land used to be the city and dwelling place of compassionate companions. When did compassion come to its end? What has happened to all the rulers of the land?…