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.
The tedious itinerary of a Physician Anthropologist Most of you will have absolutely no interest in this itinerary, I am putting this down on paper because I am so confused,…
Romance in the time of the Monsoon How can I not think of Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, when I am wandering around this lovely small town of Fort Cochin? I…
Pleasant things in Life QR 857 CGK to DOH After a farewell lunch at the office of my friend HP in Bogor, we took the precaution to leave early for…
INFLAMMATION AS THE COMMON PATHWAY TO CHRONIC DISEASES IN 2002, I was wandering around the streets of Johor Bahru, Malaysia when I came across books being sold at a Hindu…
During the course of a calendar year, I get to celebrate many NEW YEAR celebrations, either directly or indirectly: The most important for us at a personal level is the…
Friendships that spring fountains of love of shared thoughts, aspirations and love for others, love of each other, do clearly attach to our emotions with an everlasting brilliance. I was…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ASEAN…a friendly and welcoming environment Ever since I became aware of travel, I have always tried to cover regions. The Pacific was…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE WHEN ONE DOOR IS CLOSED, DON’T YOU KNOW THE OTHER IS OPEN? Those lyrics from Bob Marley, Philosopher from Jamaica, always held…
WISH THEY WERE NOT HERE.. At the recent meeting of the European Association of the Study of Diabetes (September 12-16, 2011) at Lisboa, Portugal, alarm was sounded by the troubadours…
10 am at Heathrow terminal 4 11 am at Paris CDG 1700 in KL Singapour 5 am in La Habana, Miami The flight from Paris to London was delayed because…
Only yesterday I became aware of the fact that there are students from Solomon Island studying Medicine in Cuba. Just looking at the following citation from 2008, I was so…
Does this man deserve a holiday? People, who have known me for a while, still are not sure what is that I do, which takes me to exotic places on…
I have always enjoyed that sweet sensation of Saudade, possibly the one of the more beloved words that i like in any language. a feeling of impending loss and the…
it is incredible how beautiful this part of the world looks, especially through the eyes of a stranger, after rain and fog rising out and at dusk, many cotton tail…
Who are you, anyway? IDENTITY AND SEARCH FOR A COMMUNITY A TALE OF A TRAVELLER In the New World, especially the Anglo-Saxon, English speaking conglomeration of USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND, the superficial…
