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.
2017 was an excellent year for travel. My world has geographical variations: American Indians in the USA, good friends in Miami, Family in France/Belgium, Cochin in India and KL in…
I am recuperating nicely from the last trip in the tranquility of my sisters home in Miami, while she is away with her family on Caribbean cruise. This last trip…
In recent months, I have met people with whom I immediately clicked, they are such good representations of the North American generosity, open mindedness and kindness. It was even amazing…
ARNE VAINIO, my Ojibway brother, was being honoured as the American Indian Physician of the Year 2017 at a meeting where I was one of the speakers. Our meeting and…
I had already left France and Belgium when the storm IRMA was pending and when I reached Doha in Qatar, it was evident that there would be no flight to…
For the past two years, I have been a TED MED Research Scholar, vetting the speakers to the annual TED MED conference. It is a very satisfying task, and the…
It is a great pleasure for me to show my favourite country to visiting people. In the last year, I have had multiple visitors including some friends from my university…
31 May 2017 The last day of the month of May, a month of excesses. 15 flights all in First Class or Business Class North America, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the…
TODAY is 11th May 2017, I am in Room 3401 of the Executive Floor of Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. I had come to Kuala Lumpur to find solace…
HOW TO FIND HAPPINESS IN HAVANA AVOID FOREIGNERS AND TOURISTS Unless you are a tourist or an expatriate, one does not ordinarily encounter them, if you are resident in Miami…
The portrait above is that of the Great Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota. I had spent this weekend indoors. While this house is in an isolated part of the…
RIAD HAMDANI, CASABLANCA: MOROCCAN MINT TEA AT MIDNIGHT 26 December 2016 The flight is about to leave Casablanca for its 6 hours 40 minutes flight to Hamad International Airport in…
#SIEMPRECOMANDANTE In Australia, I was aware of Fidel, Che and the Cuban Revolution. That love and admiration only increased during my stay in London to study Medicine. As luck would…
I am at the Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, at the Lounge at 34th floor, looking at the setting sun colouring the city being slowly lit up underneath me.…
The Purim greetings I fondly recollect was the one my younger brother Ricardo sent me from Jerusalem in 2009. Two young orthodox Jewish children were dressed in Arab costumes of…
From a personal point of view, these past few days have not been the best of days. I had a most wonderful time in the past few weeks: American Indians,…
UNSUNG HEROES OF QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE When one talks about service aboard a flight on long haul journeys, one is not talking about USA based airlines or…
After leaving France and Belgium, it was so good to spend a few days in Miami, my American home. Miami always reminds me of the variety of food and the…
