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.
EL INDIO IN MEXICO: A CASE OF DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP We hear about the importance of doctor-patient relationship but we don’t hear about the extraordinary relationships between Doctors and Patients. I…
WELCOME HOME A NATIVE AMERICAN WELCOME One of the greatest gifts in my life has been my choice to work with American Indians. The plans were to finish my post…
A YOUNG INDIAN WOMAN GOES OFF TO THE UNIVERSITY: FAMILY AND FRIENDS SAY FAREWELL I attended a ceremony of farewell to a young Indian Woman who was going off to…
THE EXHILARATION AT FERNANDO BOTERO MUSEUM IN CANDELARIA, BOGOTA… WHICH PART OF OUR BRAIN DOES GET STIMULATED? Bogota has that vague familiarity as one drives through, the ochre colours of…
LIFE OF LONGING, LIVED IN THE MOMENT AND WITH SPECIAL AFFECTIONS I like this sensation. What part of the brain is stimulated or excited? AA Flight to BOG. Seat 5H…
HOW TO BE A PROUD CUBAN LIVE A DAY LIKE TODAY IN THE AMAZONAS I was supposed to go to Nazareth, along the Amazon River, to visit a TICUNA Indian…
CROSS CULTURAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: ZHENG HE/CHENG HO AND THE ART OF COLLABORATION A good friend of mine is doing a course on Cross Cultural Business Management at a well-known university…
If I had travelled the eight hours on an Etihad Airways flight, then taken the train to the centre of town, checked into a Hilton Hotel and then went to…
A message to my Cuban Psychologist and Anthropologist Friends. 1 July 2015 La Habana, Cuba We, as Psychologists and Anthropologists, have a gap to fill, in the Health Care (distinguish…
TENDERNESS WITHOUT BORDERS. Ternura sin Fronteras No puedo vivir sin ternura One cannot live without tenderness Pablo Neruda once wrote Sabre acariciar las neuvas flores por que tu me ensenaste…
he was dressed impeccably, waiting for me at 17 boulevard vaugirard, the address of the Montparnasse Station in Paris. His car was clean and shiny. He looked me as I…
THE LAST JEW OF COCHIN Elias Josephai When and if this gentleman goes to Israel to join his children, the last of any Jewish lived in knowledge and history would…
Romance in the time of the Monsoon How can I not think of Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, when I am wandering around this lovely small town of Fort Cochin? I…
BEST THING ABOUT ABU DHABI IS KERALA! And the other foreign workers from Asia I had a 12 hour transit in AUH recently, in a strange and imaginative itinerary, coming…
MYOPIA ON THE INCREASE Among 25-29 year olds, there has been a dramatic increase in Myopia all around the world. In France one in two are myopic, among those studied;…
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY I just had a wonderful trip on Etihad Airways, very content, despite it being 15 hours in length. It was good to observe…
LOOKING FORWARD TO MIAMI: BRUSSELS TO MIAMI VIA LONDON JOHANNESBURG ABUDHABI AND SAO PAOLO I have had a long standing love affair with Miami and it is that city in…
DISTANCE OF MEMORIES Who is that I long for? She has no face But a force that makes you remember. The face in the emptiness of my heart I want…
