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…
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, 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…
Jul 15, 2019
MY LIFE IN HAVANA
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2019/07/my-life-in-havana.html
Jul 15, 2019
40 HOURS IN LA HABANA
I had made short visits to La Habana previously, notably a 36 hour visit from Buenos Aires, longer journey than sojourn and this time I did a 40 hours visit…
Jul 15, 2019
DELIGHTFUL MONTH OF TRAVEL. JULY 2019
It is 31 July 2019 and I recollect pleasantly what a wonderful month of travel it has been for me Began the month of July in La Havana being well…
Jun 15, 2019
A DAY OF CAREFUL THINKING OF OTHER PEOPLE .. IN THE LAND OF THE PAGODAS
I had decided to dedicate this day completely praying and thinking of various people in my life. Like Yogic philosophers say, their names would come up to your mind, just…
Jun 15, 2019
NOW TO BOTATAUNG PAGODA TO PRAY FOR LBGS AUSTRALIA FRANCE CUBA
The next person to pray for at various corners and shrines of Botataung Pagoda was LBGS Nats are pre buddhist spirits which are revered in Burma. BO BO GYI is…
Jun 15, 2019
CHAUK HTAT GYI RECLINING BUDDHA TO PRAY FOR BQ MY SISTER IN HAVANA
My little island of Cuba is blessed with wonderful people and I can count many good friends there. BQ is so unselfish and goes out of the way to help…
Jun 15, 2019
SOME IMPORTANT STREET CORNERS IN YANGON/RANGOON FOR ME
In the 1920s, my favourite poet, the Chilean Nobel Prize winner, Pablo Neruda was posted as his country's counsel in Rangoon.. There are lots of poems from this period and…
Jun 15, 2019
A WONDERFUL RELAXING DAY IN SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA
Most visitors to Siem Reap are here to see the magnificent archeological ruins, Angkor Wat and hundreds of other hindu-buddhist temples dating back to 9th to 11th centuries. I am…
Jun 15, 2019
DOES SLEEP BRING REST AND HOW TO REST A VIDEO FROM SADHGURU
Yesterday I had a wonderful day in Siem Reap. I was reading and writing and it was close to 1 am when I went to sleep. I fall asleep very…
Jun 15, 2019
ISRAEL A SMALL COUNTRY BUT A TECHNOLOGICAL GIANT
News from Israel always attract attention of people, but there is a bias in reporting about Israel. The good aspects of Israel, such as its helping patients from poorer countries…
Jun 15, 2019
WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN 3 AM AND 4 AM . AN YOGIC AND AN ENDOCRINOLOGICAL EXPLANATION
American Indians consider the earth to be an extension of their bodies and try to coordinate their bodies with the movements of planets and also the rhythm of the seasons.…
Jun 15, 2019
AH SO GOOD TO BE A ROVING AMBASSADOR FOR CUBA . A QUERY FROM ARGENTINA
Just last week I gave a talk at a conference in Havana, Cuba at the annual meeting of the Diabetes Association of Cuba as well as the Association of Latin…