Aug 15, 2020
SONG AND DANCE FOR A SATURDAY AFTERNOON
La retirada La distancia entre los dos es cada día más grande. De tu amor y de mi amor no está quedando nada. Sin embargo, el corazón no quiere resignarse…
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, 2020
FALSE FRIENDS SPANISH, FRENCH AND PORTUGESE …
If you are an English speaker, and are trying to speak Spanish or Portugese or Francaise, you would be tempted by cognates which mean the same in either language and…
Jul 15, 2020
BLACK LIVS MATTER AND RACISM TOWARDS JEWS IN THE UK
I AM TRULY SAD TO SEE THIS TURN OF EVENTS AT A TIME WHEN THE WORLD HAS A CHANCE TO HEAL Spurs and BBC distance themselves from BLM after ‘gagged…
Jul 15, 2020
GOOD USEFUL MEDICAL RESEARCH COMING OUT OF CHINA, ZIE ZIE. THANK YOU
This morning I read just two articles both with great feasibility of immediate clinical implementation. I have noticed the deterioration in the quality of research coming out of USA because…
Jul 15, 2020
A CONFERENCE? A CONGREGATION? A PARLIAMENT? COLLECTIVE NAMES FOR ANIMALS
https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/animal-group-names-quiz/?utm_campaign=Fri%2003%2F07%2F2020&utm_medium=Friday%20Club&utm_source=email&uid=ea0fddd89ecf8aa3615e67b1197088b4
Jul 15, 2020
FULL MOON OVER MIAMI. … MY GOOD WISHES TO MY FRIENDS IN CUBA, BRASIL, IRAN, MALAYSIA, INDIA, FRANCE AMONG OTHERS
photos taken from the backyard of my sister's house in Miami. The sun sets later at this time of this year in Miami, around 8 15 pm and it is…
Jul 15, 2020
KNOW YOUR GENES, KNOW YOUR CULTURE AND THAT IS YOUR NUTRITION .. NO ONE SINGLE NUTRITIONAL ADVICE FITS EVERY ONE
When I finished my training as an Endocrinologist, my knowledge about Nutrition was biblically minute, it could have been written down on a grain of rice! Very little training about…
Jul 15, 2020
THE MORNING HAS RISEN IN MIAMI…. IT IS NICE TO WAKE UP THE SUN …
The last scene in a movie that I remember as an adolescent, Orfeo Negro, one boy persuading another to play the guitar so that the Sun will rise over the…
Jul 15, 2020
A STRICTLY BIOMEDICAL BLOG… WITH NO ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMENTS…
Are All Type 2 Diabetes Medications Created Equal? Daniel D. Dressler, MD, MSc, MHM, FACP reviewing Tsapas A et al. Ann Intern Med 2020 Jun 30 For high-risk patients, some…
Jul 15, 2020
PERSIAN POETRY: ALWAYS GOOD TO READ POETRY FROM IRAN .. MEDIEVAL TIMES TO NOW ..BY WOMEN
AH IRAN IN MY HEART .. The Mirror of My Heart (Bilingual Edition): A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women Hardcover – May 19, 2020 by Rabe`eh Balkhi (Author),…
Jul 15, 2020
A GOOD DAY FOR NATIVE AMERICA
Supreme Court rules much of Eastern Oklahoma is tribal land Landmark case upholds claim by Muscogee Nation the territory, now home to 1.8 million people, is Native American land. The…
Jul 15, 2020
THE NEGLECTED GLOBAL PANDEMIC: UNCONTROLLED,GALLOPING OBESITY ALL OVER THE WORLD
EMORY University School of Medicine is providing an educational session in SPANISH for the multitudes of Health Care Providers in Latin America about OBESITY. I listened to it today as…
Jul 15, 2020
WALK IN SOMEONE’S MOCCASINS.. A GOOD TIP FOR BALANCE OF MIND
You see people getting angry at each other, for some silly infraction or not.. remember... Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins . He who…
Jul 15, 2020
LHASA DE SELA. ANYWHERE ON THE ROAD. A LOVELY SONG OF NOSTALGIA
One thing I have learned through this self isolation of Covid 19 is that there are an awful lot of unhappy people in this world and most of them do…
Jul 15, 2020
A WORD OF ADVICE TO PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS,,,,,, REGARDING PATIENT CARE IN THE COMING DECADES …LEARN TO BE GOOD GARDENERS AND NOT SHOPKEEPERS
In his powerful book, the influential Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harari argues that within a decade or two, the role of the primary care provider would become redundant as more…
Jul 15, 2020
LITTLE DOCTORS AND NURSES OF CUBA , TEACHING THEIR FELLOW PUBLIC ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES
Kindergarten students demonstrating the proper way to cough to their classmates in Bayamo, Cuba. They are dressed as Health Care Professionals. Cuba has one of the best PUBLIC HEALTH systems…
Jul 15, 2020
LOTS OF DISCOURSES ON HAPPINESS… HOW ABOUT LIVING IT ?
By an immense stroke of luck, I was able to spend an extended period of time in Southern Sweden. I had left Australia where I felt so secure about our…
Jul 15, 2020
JEWS OF KURDISTAN … LIFE THEN AND NOW .. IN ISRAEL
I have always been interested in isolated jewish communities or "exotic" jewish communities, the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan and Cochin Jews of Kerala are the best known among them. But…