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.
MACHINES WITHOUT DOCTORS DON'T PROVIDE GOOD HEALTH CARE COST OF USELESS MEDICAL CARE IN THE EMERGING NATIONS: THE CASE OF INDONESIA This was the story told to me by a…
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.…
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…
Pleasant things in Life QR 857 CGK to DOH After a farewell lunch at the office of my friend HP in Bogor, we took the precaution to leave early for…
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…
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…
SYMBOLIC HEALING WHAT CAN WE LEARN IN RAPA NUI One of the pleasures of being trained as a Medical Anthropologist is to absorb with the vision you have been taught…
A letter to my Carbohydrate Guru A Question on this first day of the year 2014 Can Champagne give you Hypoglycaemia? The breakfast, bought at the village market place, was…
2013 has been a good year for travel..the usual culprits UK, which to me still remains London France, which this year were visits to Quiberon, Bretagne Belgium, where it was…
GRATITUDE LIST ENHANCE ENJOYMENT OF BEING ALIVE Thinking of MM in BE, MC in KL, CL in CWB Do you have a mother, doctor? Yes, I do When was the…
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…
Thoughts on Spirituality I have thought about it for long. One thing I can tell you what it is not: Rituals and Dogma like you mentioned in your email of…
Eleven articles arrived on a peer reviewed Diabetes and Metabolism Journal this morning. What was very interesting to note was that the authors were not from the usual developed countries…
LOW HDL CHOLESTEROL AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS, HYPERCHOLESTROLEMIA IN JAMAICA AND A CUBAN/AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST In the Medical Literature, there has been a lot of hullabaloo made about the importance of…
Gratitude, Make someone Happy and Elixir of Love The forecast for this morning was Rain, dreary skies and the pertinent cold of oncoming northern winter. But that was not to…
METABOLIC SYNDROME A DISEASE IS BORN WHEN YOU CONVERT SOCIAL INEQUALITIES INTO MEDICAL MEASUREMENTS It is interesting to observe the metabolic changes among the Native Americans over a short period…
CULTURE, GENETICS, MODERN MEDICINE AND NON COMPLIANT HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS Why is this Social Anthropologist writing an article about the scientific aspects of recently popularized Vitamin D? Epidemiologists, those troubadours…
AM ISRAEL CHAI: HOLOCAUST, HUBERMAN AND ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The clock was turned back one hour. My sleeping pattern had been disrupted by crisscrossing of continents. I woke up at…
