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.
Poverty rates in the western world, while appearing to be different, are at a higher level than one imagines. 12.7% was the rate of poverty in the USA before the…
The sentence: Mission oriented rather than mercenary approach and in the end Missionary approach wins.. is from Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com I will tell you about a personal…
I had a chance to study at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine, twice during my professional formation as a Consultant Physician in Endocrinology. I was there…
Each year millions and millions of people get vaccinated for one of the many dreadful diseases we no longer see, because of the effectiveness of the vaccines. But the fake…
I have been marooned in Miami, unable to travel since March 2020, except for a trip to Cuba. Certainly I have taken advantage of this imposed isolation and put my…
I have had two days of absolute tranquility, calm and mental balance. No one else is in this house, I have my coffee at the patio looking at the green…
We are always grateful for friends from yore who introduced us to books or poems or countries or ways of thinking. We are the collective expressions of so many of…
t he geography of the region, island of Hormuz, Oman and Ras-al-Khaimah in the UAE This blog was written in response to a question from Abu Dhabi in UAE regarding…
No need for me to add a commentary. Al Jazeera reporting from Havana, Cuba. Not the usual vitriol from Miami. Just a small comparison La Habana is a centre of…
I am not sure which one of my professors at the University of Melbourne teaching hospital told me: Choose a specialty that suits your personality. I had observed the various…
I am a Physician specializing in Endocrinology, the study of the metabolism and also the hormones. We can measure the levels of many hormones in the body necessary for smooth…
“LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL, JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO by Free Journalists • 01/03/2019 Mr. President, We have already been decimated, tutelage and victims…
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/semiconductor-chip-shortage-60-minutes-2021-05-02/ 25 companies around the world made semi conductor chips before Covid 19. USA used to make 37% of the all the world's supply but now only 12 %. Intel…
While looking for evidence of some jewish connection to Tipu Sultan of Mysore, I came across the name of Isaac the Jew. His name appears in multiple documents, in Dutch…
Since the 1980s, in the USA, obesity and diseases related to that have been on the increase. Despite the enormous amount of money spent on TREATMENT (Americans are less interested…
Why do some songs hit you with such a powerful force that you have a feeling that you are in a hurricane and soon an incredible lull of silence and…
A little History: I used to make a side trip to Bangalore when I visited Cochin to visit the Premier Bookstore, alas no more, the owner migrated to Australia, I…
