May 15, 2020
WHAT ALL HAPPENS IN THE COURSE OF A DAY
I became aware of both masculine and feminine sides of both sexes very early on life, in heterosexual people. When in medical school, you could see the faculty, masculine and…
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.
May 15, 2020
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH: A CONCEPT WHOSE TIME HAS COME FOR DOCTORS TO UNDERSTAND
NEJM or New England Journal of Medicine or when in context of a medical conversation truncated to New England, is the leading medical publishing house in the USA. We are…
May 15, 2020
CLUB HETEROCLITE IS OPEN FOR MEMBERSHIP , IF YOU QUALIFY THERE ARE NO ANNUAL DUES
CLUB HETEROCLITE IS OPEN FOR MEMBERSHIP: PLEASE SEE IF YOU QUALIFY I take pride in my language, even though I am not very good at its grammar, but good at…
May 15, 2020
THE DEATH OF AN INDIAN IN THE AMAZONAS KADDISH FOR ANTONIO AND THE OCAINA ..AS SOON AS I CAN TRAVEL TO LETICIA
I have been thinking of Leticia on the Colombian Amazon, bordering with Tabatinga in Brasil as well as across the stream from Santa Rosa in Peru. I really want to…
May 15, 2020
IT IS A GOOD DAY TO BE GRATEFUL HELLO ON 31.05.2020 FROM MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA
An influential Guru in India always reminds his flock: When you wake up, be grateful that another day is waiting for you. In the Yogic teaching, along with any philosophical…
May 15, 2020
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO VOLUNTEER IN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES NECESSARY I hold Medecins sans Frontieres in high esteem. It was founded in 1971 by Bernard Kouchner and a coterie of French doctors and…
Apr 15, 2020
THE KATHAK DANCERS OF KARACHI
From Al Jazeera TV It is not often one sees such a bold documentary, this is the fire, the men of these countries are afraid of. They are afraid of…
Apr 15, 2020
HOW TO DETECT FAKE NEWS AT THIS TIME OF CORONA AND A BIT OF ADVICE FROM SADHGURU ABOUT SPENDING TIME ON YOURSELVES
HOW TO DETECT FAKE NEWS IN THE TIME OF CORONA I think the majority of what is being circulated as news and events in the internet, especially in the Social…
Apr 15, 2020
GOOD ADVICE FROM CUBA : PSYCHOLOGICAL IN ADDITION TO THE PHYSICAL DURING THIS CRISIS
Like the health care in Cuba where the psychological and physical are both stressed (also spiritual), in this crisis as well we have to pay attention to the physical aspects…
Apr 15, 2020
Cuba: US embargo blocks coronavirus aid shipment from Asia
When I discuss the inhuman US blockade of Cuba for the past sixty years, many naive americans would say including the cunning politicians of miami fascist front that Cuba is…
Apr 15, 2020
MINDFULNESS OF THE MIND. THE METHOD OF YEHUDA IBNCOCHINI
MINDFULNESS OF THE MIND THE METHOD OF YEHUDA IBNCOCHINI I have music on the background when I am on my computer said a friend of mine. I said to him,…
Apr 15, 2020
CUBAN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO ANDORRA. IN ADDITION TO OTHER 13 INTENATIONAL MISSIONS SO FAR TO COMBAT COVID-19
CUBAN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO ANDORRA This morning I woke up to read the good news that Cuban Medical Brigade is in the tiny Pyrenean country of ANDORRA helping them with…
Apr 15, 2020
CUBA SENDS 101 NURSES TO BARABADOS TO HELP THE SISTER COUNTRY COMBAT CORONA
101 nurses have left Cuba to assist Barbados in its fight against the Coronavirus. This brigade was unique in two ways. It was the first mission to Barbados from Cuba…
Apr 15, 2020
REDEMPTION SONG… ON THE EVE OF CELEBRATING MY FIRST ONE MAN SEDER WITHOUT A MATZO
It is a wonderfully beautiful full moon night in Miami. Why is this night different from all the other nights? I will tell you I was told to go out…
Apr 15, 2020
YET ANOTHER BAD NEWS FROM THE YANOMAMI
It is with the greatest of sadness that I read the news that the remote Yanomami have been afflicted with the Covid-19 The current government of Brasil is not at…
Apr 15, 2020
THANK YOU AMAZON PRIME ….BRING ME THE MATZO ON TIME
Whenever I mention Amazon, you know I am talking about my projects with the Indigenous peoples along the magnificent river Amazon Not this time this time about Amazon Prime delivery..…
Apr 15, 2020
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 I have had the pleasure of visiting Indigenous groups in most of the…
Apr 15, 2020
TROUBADOURS OF TRAGEDY….. LISTEN TO THE DOCTORS WHO ARE LOOKING AFTER PATIENTS RATHER THAN NUMBER CRUNCHERS
American Epidemiologists, in anthropological parlance, are referred to as, those troubadours of tragedy. Always ready to incite fear, they might begin an article with” in 2040 there would be 500…