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…
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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
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
CAN PLASTICS CAUSE TYPE 2 DIABETES? YES OF COURSE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Can Plastics cause Diabetes? Asked a prominent British Endocrine Researcher. The audience was aghast, such a relationship was unthinkable. Of course now…
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…
Aug 15, 2019
WHAT MAY CAUSE YOUR DEATH IN THE USA APART FROM GUNS AND TRAFFIC ? FOOD OF COURSE
One of the first moments of consternation when trying to understand the philosophy of the Native Indians happened with the People of the Red Earth when my teacher said to…
Aug 15, 2019
SARAH COHEN OF JEW STREET, JEW TOWN, MATTANCHERRY, COCHIN, KERALA INIDA 30AUG2019
our beloved SARAH is no more! I received three emails from Cochin today 30.08.2019 informing me that she had passed away. So many images passed through my mind. Jew Town…
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…
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
THINKING OF GENOMICS . SNP AND MAURITS van PELT MOPOTSYO.org
An advantage of having an independent medical practice, that is no office, no calls, no appointments is that one is free to read voraciously and put into practice judiciously what…
Jun 15, 2019
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DYING BECAUSE OF LACK OF IMMUNITY . THE YEAR IS 2019
Many of the indigenous peoples around the world had lived their lives in relative comfort and conditions when OUTSIDERS began to arrive.. it does not matter that it happened 4000-2500…
Jun 15, 2019
QATAR AIRWAYS THE BEST AIRLINE IN THE WORLD WITHOUT ANY DOUBT
I look forward to my flights with Qatar Airways.. On this RTW trip in June 2019, I flew QR Qatar Airways from Kuala Lumpur KUL to Doha DOH and then…
Jun 15, 2019
MAY OCHUN PROTECT YOU, CAME THE MESSAGE FROM CUBA
I arrived back in Miami, on a delayed flight close to midnight last night. This was my third round the world trip in the last six months, averaging a visit…
Jun 15, 2019
EVERY ONE IS AFTER HAPPINESS BUT IT IS NOT GOING TO COME FROM BOOKS OR YOUTUBE
In Siem Reap, when you meet a stranger you smile at them and the smile is returned, does not matter who the stranger is and where you meet them. Walking…
Jun 15, 2019
BE YOUR OWN SCRIPTWRITER . DONT REPEAT WHAT OTHERS WANT YOU TO SAY OR DO TO AVOID CONFLICTS AND ILL HEALTH
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Jun 15, 2019
RESTAURANT POU AND CHEF MORK MENGLY . IN SIEM REAP CAMBODIA
The gastronomy of this small town now a city of about 250 000 inhabitants and about 2 plus million visitors reflect the other geopolitical factors that affect travel to Angkor…
Jun 15, 2019
WHAT DOES A TROPICAL ENDOCRINOLOGIST DO IN SIEM REAP CAMBODIA
MAKE NEW FRIENDS OF COURSE .. The day begins of course with a nice breakfast.. But the time difference between Cuba and Cambodia is 11 hours, so I had to…