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.
TRAVELLING IN AMERICA: ENJOY THE VAGARIES OF CAPITALISM Almost always, my friend the Sage of Sioux City would say, Capitalism rewards the wrong type of person. I am assuming, hopefully…
The Jewish Identity in Diaspora The Economist, published weekly, has to be one of the best brain foods that is published that frequently in the English Language. I have great…
Rick Hansen in Buddha's Brain: p 98 Find Refuge in whatever is a sanctuary and refueling station for you. Potential refuges include people, activities, places, intangible things like reason, a…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE OUTCRIES ABOUT IMMIGRATION: THE FEAR OF THE OTHER What is this emotional charge that can raise the heart beat of normal law…
Like most western educated Medical Doctors, I was not that interested in the Mind Body Connection in Health while I was a Medical Student, Resident in Internal Medicine and a…
AN ENCOUNTER WITH MEXICO IN THE FAR NORTH, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, USA Bismarck, North Dakota is possibly the northernmost city of any size, furthest away from the USA border with…
CAMEL MILK. A NATURAL ANTI-DOTE TO DIABETES, OF COURSE IN CONTEXT BioMed Central is an extraordinarily wide and comprehensive source of cutting edge research and investigations from around the world.…
SEATTLE, A FOODIE PARADISE Outside of New York City, in the USA, the major cities have regional emphasis on their cuisine, with a smattering of innovative cuisine. If you go…
THE POVERTY OF LACK OF TIME On a flight from Madrid to New York City sometimes ago, I sat next to a corporate type gentleman who began pounding away at…
As if to celebrate the Jewish New Year 5774, I noticed that the counter of page views on this blog has passed 100,000! When you think there are millions and…
Today is the First Day of September 2013 and in a few days time we would welcome the Jewish New Year. I hope to be in Brussels on Rosh Hashanah…
CUBA IN MY HEART INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER AT TK ICP LOUNGE AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT American Indians say, Things happen for Reason. There are no coincidences, it is just we cannot understand…
People of the Cape (qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌)….An Elder Visits I am associated with the North American Indians, and over the course of time, have met some excellent Nurses.. MS and LL at…
Life should be without Longings and Regrets Once when I was a Junior Doctor at a hospital in Brisbane, Australia, I remember leaning on the wall to support myself, to…
CULTURAL COMPETENCY IS NOT ENOUGH THE CASE OF MONTREAL AIRPORT Each of the person I met today –in the context of the interactions of capitalist culture of travel- was culturally…
On a recent visit to South East Asia, to Malaysia and Indonesia, discussions with my friends made one realize that in a very short period of time, there has been…
INFLAMMATION AS THE COMMON PATHWAY TO CHRONIC DISEASES IN 2002, I was wandering around the streets of Johor Bahru, Malaysia when I came across books being sold at a Hindu…
AIR ASIA, whose CEO, Tony Fernandes, a Malaysian Indian, has done more for the integration of ASEAN countries than any SINGLE politician of the region, and now connecting both India…
