Sep 15, 2019
LAST DAY OF JEWISH YEAR 5779 . WHAT A LOVELY END!
WHAT A LOVELY END Loves have only grown.. CUBA my home, the numerous brothers and sister that I toil for.. a glass of Chenin Blanc from an Indian winery, ah…
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.
Aug 15, 2019
LOYALTY PAYS OFF.. IT IS. CONNOR. AGAIN AT HILTON
I have always felt that LOYALTY to a brand matters, when you are on the road constantly. Today I had a flight from Colombo to London Heathrow, a 11 hour…
Aug 15, 2019
I AM LISTENING TO FARAMARZ ASLANI HAVING JUST ARRIVED IN MIAMI FROM HAVANA
Here I am in my sisters home in Miami , the evening is mild and I am listening to a new Iranian Singer to me, Faramarz Aslani and enjoying it…
Aug 15, 2019
WHERE IN THE BRAIN ARE THE LONGINGS STORED?
The morning was rather tender, the sun never shone so horridly that one takes refuge, and the day slipped into the afternoon, the tropics which are like hammocks for lovers…
Aug 15, 2019
A lovely trip to Europe
I have just returned to Miami after a 10 day trip to Europe in which I discovered a lovely part of Austria and also ventured into the mountainous parts of…
Aug 15, 2019
HOW TO READ A MEDICAL ARTICLE WITH A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL EYE?
HOW TO READ A MEDICAL ARTICLE WITH A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL EYE? A total of 41 studies published between 1963 and 2018 were included, of which 40 were classified as safe…
Aug 15, 2019
SARAH COHEN OF JEW STREET, JEW TOWN, MATTANCHERRY, COCHIN, KERALA INIDA 30AUG2019
our beloved SARAH is no more! I received three emails from Cochin today 30.08.2019 informing me that she had passed away. So many images passed through my mind. Jew Town…
Aug 15, 2019
WHAT MAY CAUSE YOUR DEATH IN THE USA APART FROM GUNS AND TRAFFIC ? FOOD OF COURSE
One of the first moments of consternation when trying to understand the philosophy of the Native Indians happened with the People of the Red Earth when my teacher said to…
Aug 15, 2019
LOTS OF VITAMIN D , DOES IT HELP BUILD BONES IN HEALTHY PEOPLE NO NO NO
As an endocrinologist, I believe that we must give hormones or supplements to people who demonstrate a definite deficiency and not on some empirical treatment that more may be better…
Aug 15, 2019
GOING HOME TO HAVANA. FIRST LEG. AMSTERDAM TO LONDON TO MIAMI
I had arrived at Amsterdam Schipol Airport from Corinthia Corentin region of Austria the day before, four hours by train from its capital Klagenfort to Vienna and a short Austrian…
Jul 15, 2019
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION OF HAVANA LIFE
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Jul 15, 2019
EATING IN HAVANA . WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO AN ANTHROPOLOGIST?
0 0 1 295 1688 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 14 3 1980 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Eating in Havana Means two things FRIENDS…
Jul 15, 2019
MARIE UNO AGED 24 YEARS BECOMES A DOCTOR IN CUBA
Marie Uno as I call her was born 10 Jan 1995 and at the age of 24.5 years, she will be have the licence to practise Medicine in Cuba accepted…
Jul 15, 2019
EAT YOUR YOGURT . HERR SVENSON
Microbiome and their importance in the general health maintenance is receiving an enormous attention among the research scientists. Since they reside in the Colon, the effect of Yogurt, a fermented…
Jul 15, 2019
THINKING OF GENOMICS . SNP AND MAURITS van PELT MOPOTSYO.org
An advantage of having an independent medical practice, that is no office, no calls, no appointments is that one is free to read voraciously and put into practice judiciously what…
Jul 15, 2019
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA 500 YEARS OLD . THE FEAST THAT NEVER ENDS
I have stolen the epithet the feast that never ends from Hemingway when he described his life in Paris. Living in La Habana I can understand the euphoria of being…
Jul 15, 2019
DE SASTRE DE SAN JOSE . MY FRIEND VALENTIN TAILOR FROM MAYABEQUE
Sastre is tailor in spanish and a play on the word, de sastre, sounds like disaster.. Was not there a book by John Le Carre The Tailor of Panama? made…
Jul 15, 2019
TURNING THE TABLES OF FRAUDSTERS . THIS TIME A LYFT DRIVER AT MIAMI AIRPORT
I had arrived on a flight from Havana to Miami International Airport and cleared the customs and immigration in record time. (I have Special Entry) I requested an Lyft driver…