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.
Corruption of Morality to other Human Beings Last night, around Midnight, was walking along Marais, a Hip neighbourhood of France, after a very satisfying dinner at Breizh Café, a Breton…
Gabo and Magical Realism; Alejo Carpentier and Realidad Maravillosa Currently I am reading an excellent book, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin, a labour of love of over…
I was extraordinarily lucky to have had my medical education divided between three countries: London in England, a medical model still paying attention to the great masters of the past…
Musee de la Vie Romantique The city of Paris maintains a slew of museums, which are free for visitors, a fact that I learned only this afternoon when I went…
at the second oldest european settlement in Nebraska? at a Church Hall? PM is a patient of mine, and had impressed me with his curiosity about his medical condition and…
Cultural Frankenstein How the foreigners fail to transact symbols in Cuba. Sometimes, it is interesting to see a Cuban walking by, and your immediate thought is Here goes a cultural…
Shabbat Shalom from San Cristobal de la Habana 26 th June 2009 I have missed lighting the shabbat candles, this past Friday I was at a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska;…
Day 3 in Havana. Early Morning. As usual, another night of deep sleep. During the week with the Indians, the sleep was so disturbed, waking up at 2 am and…
True Giving Altruism is giving that which you cannot afford, said my father, once upon a time. I was with an UmonHon Indian friend of mine, at the parking lot…
I asked an Indian lady, whom I respect as an Educator among her people. Do you at times feel you are living in two different worlds? I was thinking of…
Meeting with Remarkable People Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Yangon/Rangoon, Myanmar/Burma This was a short visit: A Friendship visit, with the possibility of meeting up with a professor of Diabetes in Yangon…
This evening I witnessed a group of young Indians joyously playing a sport they adore.. Basketball. there was much happiness in the air and the efforts were strenuous. One can…
Claude Berger is certainly an interesting man.. Born and raised in Marais, the jewish district, this writer, philospher, marxist, and a dentist to boost and a lover of jewish culture…
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 one of the few advantages of driving through large swathes of plain countryside in the USA, in a rented car, is the ability to listen to BBC
It is one of Life’s greatest pleasures, indeed, when out of the mist of time, where memories hide, one small glimmer of a light comes out, bringing with it fragrances…
TOKYO SONATA JAPAO 2008 KIYOSHI KUROSAWA Watched on a flight from Paris to Madras on 16 fevrier 2009. Avec Teruyuki Kagawa Desperation. A senseof failure. Wanting to start all over.…
Historian Bernard Lewis breathes a fresh perspective into the cultural conflict between the Arab and Islamic world and the west. Even as early as 1950, he had thought that the…
Dear Friends: I was in India for six days, but in three states, three cities and three nights spent on trains! The Blind Astrologer had wanted me to do three…
