Sep 15, 2019
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES MY LIFE IN HAVANA CUBA
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES I have always wondered why the Cubans who live in the island are so kind and demonstrate a sense of solidarity that one rarely…
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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.
Sep 15, 2019
A MAGICAL DAY AT THE SLOVENIA-ITALY-AUSTRIA BORDER OF MOUNTAINS AND LAKES
I was visiting my friends BB and D who live in a small village of Sankt Mikael near the small town of Bleiburg along the Austrian alps. Both are natives…
Sep 15, 2019
LAST DAY OF JEWISH YEAR 5779 . WHAT A LOVELY END!
WHAT A LOVELY END Loves have only grown.. CUBA my home, the numerous brothers and sister that I toil for.. a glass of Chenin Blanc from an Indian winery, ah…
Sep 15, 2019
THE FEASTS OF HAVANA CUBA : A GLIMPSE OF LIVES HAPPILY LIVED
After I had delivered a talk at the annual conference of Endocrinology in 2019, an Argentine doctor said she needed an explanation: This is my first visit to Cuba, she…
Sep 15, 2019
THE TRAGEDY OF HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE BECOME REFUGEES
When I first arrived in Miami as a student, the reputation of Venezuela was that of a rich country with lots of its citizens owning prime real estate in Miami,…
Sep 15, 2019
A PHYSICIAN-ANTHROPOLOGIST CONSUMES ONLY ORGANIC FOOD FOR FOUR DAYS AND THIS IS HIS REPORT
When my interest began in the additives and chemicals to the food we ingest and the continuing rise of non communicable diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes and non-auto immune…
Sep 15, 2019
HAVANA IS TRULY AN UNENDING FEAST: A DELIGHTFUL WEEK IN SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA
I had been looking forward to my return to the island, with a brief sojourn in Miami where I enjoyed spending a couple of days in the Everglades National Park.…
Sep 15, 2019
DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
When I was finishing my post graduate studies in Medicine (Endocrinology) my contemporaries were busy scouting for future residences and private practices. I was intent on an International Career which…
Aug 15, 2019
A lovely trip to Europe
I have just returned to Miami after a 10 day trip to Europe in which I discovered a lovely part of Austria and also ventured into the mountainous parts of…
Aug 15, 2019
WHERE IN THE BRAIN ARE THE LONGINGS STORED?
The morning was rather tender, the sun never shone so horridly that one takes refuge, and the day slipped into the afternoon, the tropics which are like hammocks for lovers…
Aug 15, 2019
LOYALTY PAYS OFF.. IT IS. CONNOR. AGAIN AT HILTON
I have always felt that LOYALTY to a brand matters, when you are on the road constantly. Today I had a flight from Colombo to London Heathrow, a 11 hour…
Jul 15, 2019
DELIGHTFUL MONTH OF TRAVEL. JULY 2019
It is 31 July 2019 and I recollect pleasantly what a wonderful month of travel it has been for me Began the month of July in La Havana being well…
Jul 15, 2019
40 HOURS IN LA HABANA
I had made short visits to La Habana previously, notably a 36 hour visit from Buenos Aires, longer journey than sojourn and this time I did a 40 hours visit…
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
EATING IN HAVANA . WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO AN ANTHROPOLOGIST?
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Jul 15, 2019
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION OF HAVANA LIFE
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Jun 15, 2019
REMEMBERING THE MOST HON.EDWARD PHILLIP GEORGE SEAGA, FORMER PRIMER MINISTER OF JAMAICA
When a statesman of the calibre of Mr Seaga passes away, each of the thousands of people who had come in contact with him throughout his illustrious, long political career,…
Jun 15, 2019
HOME IN DOHA FOR A HOMELESS HUMANITARIAN DOCTOR THANK YOU AND GRACIAS
When my good friend Dr Jim Kerr from South Dakota came to visit me in Miami, he quipped: You are homeless but certainly Upper Class.. he was not thinking of…