Aug 15, 2014
DRA. ESTELA ROSALES GARZA: THE INCREDIBLE PHYSICIAN OF COAHUILA
In my travels around the world, I have been fortunate to encounter physicians devoted to their craft. It is a pleasure to be in their presence and watch them heal…
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.
Jul 15, 2014
THE BARBER POET OF LA HABANA
THE BARBER POET OF LA HABANA EL ULTIMO ROMANTICO It was a balmy evening in La Habana, Cuba. As usual people were milling about, this being a Friday, more than…
Jun 15, 2014
WELCOME TO FRIENDLY CHICAGO TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY 2014
FRIENDLY CHICAGO This was my first visit to the Windy City, by the lake to attend the annual meeting of the professional association I belong to, The Endocrine Society, They…
Jun 15, 2014
UPDATE FROM CAMBODIA.. DONE WITH MIXING WITH LOCALS, NEXT TIME NOVOTEL or RAFFLES
I am writing this from Joe to Go Cafe in the centre of the tourist area in Siem Reap, in the relative comfort of an early morning air conditioning, while…
Jun 15, 2014
LESSONS FOR A VISITOR TO ISRAEL
LESSONS FROM ISRAEL A visit to Israel is an eye opener, even those who keep abreast of what is happening there. On a recent short visit, I was amazed how…
Apr 15, 2014
NATURE VS NURTURE WHEN IT COMES TO HUMANITARIAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
Nature vs Nurture Science vs Entrepreneurial While watching a short video about some of the eye boggling science that is coming out of Israel, I began thinking about Nature vs…
Apr 15, 2014
DO THEY SERVE MATZOH ON AMERICAN AIRLINES? LAMENT FOR A MISSED SEDER BY A JEW WHO WANDERED A BIT TOO MUCH
One of the earliest lines of Spanish Poetry that made me want to learn the tongue of Cervantes, was, read on my way from school in Sweden to home in…
Mar 15, 2014
NAT IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT RANGOON, BURMA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF AN ENCOUNTER AT THE SYNGAGOUE IN RANGOON! Burma, or its modern name, Myanmar, had offered welcome to Iraqi…
Mar 15, 2014
INDONESIA IN MIAMI
INDONESIA IN MIAMI if you are a resident of a vacation spot, you tend to get a lot of visitors, which was the case when I was a resident of…
Feb 15, 2014
PORTUGAL AND GENETIC MEMORY: MY NEWEST FAVOURITE COUNTRY IN EUROPE
What does it mean, Genetic Memory? We inherit genes from our parents, then learn our culture, our languages. Later on we go on to live in countries which are not…
Feb 15, 2014
WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE …thoughts of Eastern Philosophers
We are all looking for a Better Life! I spend time thinking about the three different philosophies that I have become interested in over the years: The Yogic philosophy of…
Feb 15, 2014
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS !
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS I have been lucky to have been able to combine my profession (Medicine) , my passion (Anthropology) and Travel, almost always combining the three.…
Feb 15, 2014
NUTRITION, OVERWEIGHT, OBESITY AND CANCER AROUND THE WORLD
The Jakarta Post is an English Language newspaper published in Indonesia and as regional newspapers go it has less parochial and more of an international slant than Straits Times of…
Feb 15, 2014
QATAR AIRWAYS AND THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL AVIATION
QATAR AIRWAYS CHANGING THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL AVIATION I just had a chance to fly Qatar Airways from CGK to DOH, use their Premium Terminal there and carry on to…
Jan 15, 2014
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE HORSE, HAPPY LUNAR YEAR OF THE TET ..AND OF COURSE THE KICKAPOO NEW YEAR
HAPPY CONTENT YEAR OF THE HORSE FOR MY CHINESE FRIENDS PROSPEROUS LUNAR YEAR OF TET TO MY VIETNAMESE FRIENDS I was quite happy to obtain a ticket from Miami to…
Jan 15, 2014
CULTURAL DIVERSITY, NOW AND BEFORE IT WAS, MULTICULTURALISM
COULD CULTURAL DIVERSITY DISAPPEAR THE SAME WAY AS CROSS CULTURE AWARENESS WITH A SOCIAL ACTIVIST IN HANGA ROA While I was studying Anthropology in London, the buzzword of the day…
Dec 15, 2013
MIAMI THE MOST CULTURALLY DIVERSE CITY
Miami holds the distinction, unique in this planet, of having the largest number of inhabitants born outside the USA! So unless one is fairly young, you can assume that the…
Dec 15, 2013
OMAN IS A SPECIAL ARAB COUNTRY : RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A JEWISH TRAVELLER
WHY DO I TRAVEL TO OMAN WHY IS IT SO SPECIAL When I sent emails from Salalah, Oman on a recent stopover there, a good friend of mine asked: Why…