Jan 15, 2021
NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FELT THIS IMPOTENT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
It was March 18, 2020 and I had packed my bags and ready to go to the airport to leave the USA. My sister and her husband begged me to…
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.
Jan 15, 2021
END OF AN ERA… WE HAD A GOOD TIME, DIDNT WE?
It has been a long haul.. long stretched out dinners full conversations late into the night.. catching up on the news of your dear friends.. spontaneously running into faces familiar…
Jan 15, 2021
ESTONIA HAS A NEW WOMAN PRIME MINISTER..
Nothing makes me happier than to hear that a woman has been chosen to lead a country. I do not question their political affiliation, one can be sure that we…
Jan 15, 2021
A GOODBYE IN JANUARY OR IS IT A GOODBYE TO JANUARY 2021
Arcadia, Florida does not seem an appropriate place to say GOOD BYEs..there is a whisper of the gentle southern charm in the air, moss hanging fro trees, no longer do…
Jan 15, 2021
A BIT OF HISTORY OF CUBA-USA RELATIONSHIP
The United States like other colonized countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and all of Latin America from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, do not have a good record…
Dec 15, 2020
MOROCCO-ISRAELI FRIENDSHIP IS CENTURIES OLD.. A NICE HANUKKAH GIFT OF INCREASED MUTUAL COOPERATION
Jews must have lived in Morocco ever since 70 CE but the definite change came after they were expelled from Spain 1492. Even before the expulsion, there was migration of…
Dec 15, 2020
WHO WAS WALDEMAR HUFFKINE? BACTERIOLOGISTS, INDIANS INTERESTED IN MEDICAL HISTORY AND JEWS AND SOME PHILATELISTS REMEMBER HIM
The very first time I heard the name WALDEMAR HUFFKINE was when I was offered a STAMP which showed his face and his proper role (but largely forgotten) in the…
Dec 15, 2020
THE PUZZLE OF VITAMIN D
THE PUZZLE OF VITAMIN D It was very exciting to study about Vitamin D metabolism while we were medical students. Called Sunshine Vitamin it was manufactured in the skin from…
Dec 15, 2020
A DAY OF RECOGNITION FOR DR PAUL FARMER AS WELL AS MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Very few Practising Physicians are also Medical Anthropologists, this applies to the entire world. In the USA, there are excellent Medical Anthropologists but the majority of them are not physicians…
Dec 15, 2020
USA WHILE LOOSING RESPECT ABROAD FOR ITS POLITICS IS STILL THE CENTRE OF INNOVATION WITH ISRAEL BEING A CLOSE SECOND
AMERICA OR USA is a land of immigrants and more so as each year goes by. When you are in a city like Miami you realize that your chance of…
Dec 15, 2020
SAUDADE DE RANGUN (RANGOON, YANGON) BIRMANIA BIRMANIE MYANMAR
I have a lifelong connection with Burma even though my first visit there was in 2003 with my brother Eliyahu. I had heard stories from my biological father about his…
Dec 15, 2020
ANOTHER KUDOS FOR MO PO TSYO THE PEER TO PEER EDUCATOR PROGRAMME IN CAMBODIA RUN BY MY FRIEND MAURITS
I am very proud of my friend Maurits van Pelt and the NGO he heads in Cambodia, MoPoTsyo in which Peer Educators take care of poor people, usually from the…
Dec 15, 2020
A SPECIAL DEATH: REMEMBERING THE MAHARAJAH OF SERI KEMBANGAN AND HIS TWO COURTIERS
A special death There are special deaths, but only Special people deserve that. Death comes out of season, said the Great Orator of the Omaha, The Little Elk. We can't…
Dec 15, 2020
IF YOU WANT RELIABLE AND TRUTHFUL NEWS, BE PREPARED TO PAY FOR IT
It was one of my professors of Medicine in Miami, Dr Howard Lessner, Olav ha shalom, who said to me: the drug companies would send you lots of free materials…
Dec 15, 2020
TWO PIECES OF ADVICE FROM DIFFERENT. PARTS OF THE WORLD. 31.12.2020
Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon, was a precocious kid who once told his grandmother, who was fond of smoking, how to calculate the number of days of life lost by smoking.…
Dec 15, 2020
NURSES VISITING PATIENTS AT HOME AND RELAYING INFORMATION TO THE CLINIC: A VITAL PART OF HEALTH CARE AND ANTHROPOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE
This is a presentation I gave to a group of Visiting Nurses/Home Health Nurses. I will write commentaries on each of the slides and hope that many nurses get to…
Dec 15, 2020
CELESTIAL MAGIC OF DECEMBER 21
I had been waiting for this day, 21 december 2020. Normally it is just the Winter Solstice. Even in this tropical clime, during this time of the year, the sun…
Dec 15, 2020
A FULL MOON AND A WELCOME WITH RELIEF OF A NEW YEAR 31.12.2021
on 29th december 2020, the last full moon of the decade appears and as the Indians call it the winter moon or the moon that brings the winter.. I received…