Nov 15, 2025
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly by Yehuda Kovesh MD (London), FRAI (London) A Frenchman’s Remark A French academician once observed: “English is a language that is…
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.
Jun 15, 2025
Mangroves and Memory: Hidden Currents Between Pine Island and Cuba
A coastal field note tracing mangroves, memory, Pine Island, Cuba, and the quiet routes between places.
Jun 15, 2025
What Makes Someone Love Their Work?
A reflection on purpose, Indigenous health, and the kind of work that protects against burnout.
Jan 15, 2025
A Hard Rock Café T-Shirt from Porto and Elvis Costello
A field note on travel, music, Indigenous patients, and the unexpected ways people and places are related.
Jan 15, 2025
What Is International Medicine?
A physician-anthropologist’s definition of international medicine, beyond romance, rescue fantasy, and institutional cliché.
Jan 15, 2025
Why Don’t You Stay?
A bilingual reflection on travel, belonging, and the question of why one does not simply stay.
Jan 15, 2025
Walker Evans and My Luck with Barbers
A reflection moving from Walker Evans to barbers, photography, human dignity, and fortunate encounters.
Aug 15, 2024
How to Prolong Your Life by Travel
A reflection on travel, Miami, escape, and the health of changing one’s surroundings.
Jul 15, 2024
GRACIAS MI HERMANO FELIX DE MERIDA YUCATAN
Fernando Pessoa, the great Portuguese writer well known for his personal insecurities, once wrote: “If one of the faces that I pass daily on the streets disappear, I feel sad,…
Jul 15, 2024
HUEVOS MOTULEÑOS AND ITS LEVANTINE CONNECTION ?
Huevos Motuleños: A Culinary Fusion with Middle Eastern Roots Huevos motuleños, a vibrant and flavorful Yucatecan dish, is a testament to the rich tapestry of cultural influences that have shaped…
Jul 15, 2024
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION MEETING IN ORLANDO FLORIDA JUNE 2024
I am a Specialist Physician in Endocrinology and also an Anthropologist with special interest in the Indigenous peoples of the world. Just attended an International Conference on Diabetes where I…
Apr 15, 2024
FLOWERS IN BLOOM AT THE FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDENS IN MIAMI FLORIDA IN MARCH APRIL 2024
Some flowers in bloom now at the Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami, Florida Poinsettia is a commercially important flowering plant (euphorbia) indigenous to Mexico and Central America Brazil Raintree, native…
Mar 15, 2024
SECOND DAY OF NOWRUZ HAPPY DAYS
I enjoyed very much the first day of Nowruz, sending and receiving greetings and exchanging photographs and seeing many a haft sin tables and to see the happy faces of…
Mar 15, 2024
A WONDERFUL NOWRUZ TO ALL FRIENDS AND LOVERS
A WONDERFUL NOWRUZ TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHEREVER YOU ARE, WHETHER YOU ARE IRANIAN OR NOT.. SPRING IS BEING PROMISED BY UNCLE PIRUZ All lovers of Iranian cinema would be…
Feb 15, 2024
ONE LIFE STARRING SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS ABOUT SIR NICHOLAS WINTON WHO ORGANIZED BRINGING OF 669 JEWISH CHILDREN OF PRAGUE , EVADING THEIR DEATH IN THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS
ONE LIFE , MOVIE ABOUT SIR NICHOLAS WINTON (WERTHEIM) MOVIE STARRING ANTHONY HOPKINS, LENA OLIN, HELENA BONHAM-CARTER Eventhough he was born a Jew, he never practiced, disillusioned by prayers of…
Feb 15, 2024
OH POBRE AMERICANOS, COME TO MEXICO. THE FOOD IS BETTER SO IS THE SPECIALIST MEDICAL CARE . MORE COMPASSIONATE
Oh, unlucky American patients-so close to good personal medical attention in Mexico and yet so far from a holistic approach. Just about a month ago, I returned to the Ticuna…
Feb 15, 2024
Navigating the Spiritual Terrain and Cultural Landscapes of Leticia: A Journey Beyond the Ordinary. Spanish translation at the end
Navigating the Spiritual Terrain and Cultural Landscapes of Leticia: A Journey Beyond the Ordinary In the heart of the Amazonian enclave of Leticia, I encountered a moment of profound introspection…
Feb 15, 2024
VIPASSANA SENSATION IN LETICIA IN COLOMBIAN AMAZON
Yesterday I had a very strange sensation in the amazonian town of Leticia. Perhaps it was the reason I had travelled there ? It seemed , or was it a…