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.
When I finished my training as an Endocrinologist, my knowledge about Nutrition was biblically minute, it could have been written down on a grain of rice! Very little training about…
Overall, the coronavirus mortality rate was highest among Muslims, followed by Hindus, Jews and Sikhs, while those who say they have no religion had the lowest death rate among religious…
After writing a blog about Dame Vera Lynn who passed away on 18/6/2020, I thought of other icons of music from other countries that I could think of and also…
We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies…
This investigative reporting about Generic Drugs is deeply disturbing. It was on TedMed, a forum very highly respected and the lecture was given by an investigator who spent years trying…
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. Ernesto CHE Guevara de la Sarna Lynch 14.06.1928. Rosario, Argentina. In faraway Australia, I was…
The above video uploaded and already has garnered millions of views. It touches on a subject that we might pretend that does not exist , he is a second generation…
Currently, despite being approximately 13% of the U.S. population, blacks constitute only 5% of all doctors and 10% of nurses. The Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Black Health Care Workers…
The Covid 19 pandemic has revealed many wrongful aspects of our societies. We tend to concentrate on the disparity of wealth, social order and race relations. One positive aspect that…
WHO IS DYING FROM COVID 19 WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU IN ? CUBA OR INDONESIA , VIETNAM OR BANGLADESH IN THE USA, WHAT IS YOUR INCOME? WHAT IS YOUR COLOUR?…
It usually begins with a man and occasionally a woman, well dressed and well kempt, wearing surgical scrubs or a white coat with something like. DR…. embroidered on to it.…
On making his discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what…
MIGRATION THROUGH LIFE A threat to the Planet as well as at an individual level is/has been present over the past three months. We have become open to the sufferings…
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES NECESSARY I hold Medecins sans Frontieres in high esteem. It was founded in 1971 by Bernard Kouchner and a coterie of French doctors and…
An influential Guru in India always reminds his flock: When you wake up, be grateful that another day is waiting for you. In the Yogic teaching, along with any philosophical…
CLUB HETEROCLITE IS OPEN FOR MEMBERSHIP: PLEASE SEE IF YOU QUALIFY I take pride in my language, even though I am not very good at its grammar, but good at…
I became aware of both masculine and feminine sides of both sexes very early on life, in heterosexual people. When in medical school, you could see the faculty, masculine and…
Over the years I have become very fond of Cochin in Kerala, India. One cunning man eyed me wearily and asked: there must be more than just love for the…
