Dec 15, 2019
THIS IS NOT A BLOG . BUT A RECORD OF MY TRAVELS IN 2019
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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.
Nov 15, 2019
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST WITHOUT BORDERS WHO MAKES HOUSE CALLS
I am trained as an Endocrinologist and I have never had an office. I make house-calls, but they are not in any particular town or country. Today I was assigned…
Nov 15, 2019
THANK YOU FOR NOT COMING… WISH YOU WERE NOT HERE
Currently there is a healthy trend in the minds of the potential visitors from Europe and other richer nations about TOURISM and the destinations. As you have seen, VENICE is…
Jul 15, 2019
DE SASTRE DE SAN JOSE . MY FRIEND VALENTIN TAILOR FROM MAYABEQUE
Sastre is tailor in spanish and a play on the word, de sastre, sounds like disaster.. Was not there a book by John Le Carre The Tailor of Panama? made…
Jul 15, 2019
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION OF HAVANA LIFE
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Jun 15, 2019
AH SO GOOD TO BE A ROVING AMBASSADOR FOR CUBA . A QUERY FROM ARGENTINA
Just last week I gave a talk at a conference in Havana, Cuba at the annual meeting of the Diabetes Association of Cuba as well as the Association of Latin…
May 15, 2019
GLOBAL HEALTH PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST . DOES THAT EXIST ?
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Apr 15, 2019
World is angry and stressed, Gallup report says . from the BBC
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Feb 15, 2019
A DAY WITH BENEDETTI IN MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY
I am not sure when Benedetti entered my life. His association with Cuba 1977 was long before mine. I visited Colonia with . my brother Itzhak and another time with…
Jan 15, 2019
MICROBIOME AND KIDNEY AND OTHER INFLAMMATORY DISEASES
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…
Oct 15, 2018
HAPPINESS IN HAVANA FOOD OR FRIENDS OR FAVOURITES
Normally my friend and taxista, Yodel, picks me up in a 1958 Chevrolet. This time he surprised me on this very well kempt 1949 Oldsmobile.. remainders/reminders of a glory past..…
Sep 15, 2018
NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE MUSIC AND BLOOD PRESSURE
There is a variety of reasons why people get high blood pressure HBP. The history of 130/80 as the normal (which was revised in 2017 to 120/80 as being the…
Sep 15, 2018
GOOD WISHES FOR A PROSPEROUS AND CONTENT 5779
GREETINGS FROM ISRAEL. SHANAH TOVAH TIKKETEVU. It is so nice, my first ever time, that I am in the Land of Israel for the Jewish New Year I came across…
Aug 15, 2017
A TALE OF TWO CITIES; NEW YORK AND DOHA, A GOOD METAPHOR FOR DECLINE
A TALE OF TWO CITIES: IN A MATTER OF HOURS. A GOOD METAPHOR NEW YORK AND DOHA To travel from Havana to Doha, one has to transit either in Miami…
Aug 15, 2017
CUBA IT IS TIME TO VISIT THE TREASURE OF CUBA: ITS PEOPLE
It is a great pleasure for me to show my favourite country to visiting people. In the last year, I have had multiple visitors including some friends from my university…
Oct 15, 2016
THE TEDIOUS ITINERARY OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS
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,…
Oct 15, 2016
HOME TO HOME HAVANA 1230 PM 25.9.2016 TO BRUSELAS/BRUXELLES 29.9.2016 1900
The day of departure from Havana is always sad, I had the feeling that this time around I will miss my Little Island more than the usual for various reasons.…
Sep 15, 2016
A TOUR GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO HAVANA, CUBA
Gordon and Gaye, two friends from Melbourne wanted to add La Habana to their itinerary of a tour to South America. We had been friends for a long time, having…