Dec 15, 2010
Symbolic Healing among the Kickapoo of Mexico
I have a sister, Menacuatucua. Eventhough I do not belong to her tribe (The Traditional Kickapoo who have homes in Eagle Pass, Texas and Nacimiento de los Negros at the…
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.
Dec 15, 2010
Burma Myanmar The Land of Harmony
I have always cherished this photograph taken in downtown Yangon/Rangoon! You see a Buddhist Monk, ahead of him is a Moslem Lady in Hijab and next to her you see…
Dec 15, 2010
Yoga and Prevention of Obesity, Pre Diabetes and Diabetes
When you are a Culturally Sensitive and Competent Physician or Researcher, the comparative knowledge highlights that which is good about the various cultures. It is not borrowing from one another…
Nov 15, 2010
Affection to Affection, carrying a Net of Friendships.. Paris to KL Fourth time this year
I was made aware of the value of friendships very early in life, when for various reasons, my own family couldnt be with me (then or later in my life)…
Nov 15, 2010
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL OBSERVATION OF WESTERN MEDICINE PRACTICED IN FIVE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Western Medicine is practiced without empathy and understanding of the person, in a totally un-holistic way in all the five countries mentioned. The Cardiologist in Miami was friendly, the Cardiologist…
Nov 15, 2010
The Sage of Sioux City, Iowa in the United States
Was it fifteen years ago? That I walked into a Coffee shop in the Midwestern town of Sioux City, a nondescript place with no great intellectual fountains to speak of……
Nov 15, 2010
Yoga in Cuba
Meeting with a Remakable Yogi in Havana, Cuba A line from Pablo Neruda’s poem always sticks in my mind when I am in La Habana, Cuba. In it the poet…
Nov 15, 2010
La Habana, Cuba… Coincidences are not Casual
Casualidad es no tan Casual It is just you are not intelligent enough to understand it, said my Meskwaki teacher.. We tend to believe that things happen in a random…
Oct 15, 2010
Childhood Obesity in the USA
Some thoughts on Childhood Obesity in the USA as I am waiting for a Lunch of Langoustines in the sea side Brittany port of Quiberon.. The prevalence of overweight was…
Oct 15, 2010
My Neighbourhood in the City of San Cristobal….Vedado
This is one trip that I am happy to pay for, to anticipate and go through the rigorous customs and immigration check and other hassles.. not to mention the paperwork…
Oct 15, 2010
A Wonderful Day with Los Indios.. The Original Inhabitants of this Land
Today is 20th October 2010 My feelings are so tender, so warm and so effusive.. What is the source of tenderness? It is the time that i spend with these…
Oct 15, 2010
It is so easy to be a Medical Pawn…
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False John P. A. Ioannidis John P. A. Ioannidis is in the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina,…
Oct 15, 2010
What All Happens in the Course of One Week?
LH Miami to Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur. Reunion with Friends over a Chinese Dinner. Brunch at Mandarin Oriental. Pedicure/Manicure by the greatest Pedicurist in the world, GS at A Cut…
Sep 15, 2010
Erev Yom Kippur entre OS INDIOS Peace and Happiness to All
Feel very content on this erev Yom Kippur even though I am far away from many of the people who are important to me and also to the Jewish people…
Sep 15, 2010
Once again it is time to Leave the REZ
Each time I leave the Indian Country, I say to myself, this has been a good visit. I am fortunate that I have been saying this for many years. At…
Sep 15, 2010
Plans for Travel for the rest of 2010
Now that the High Holydays are nearly Over.. time to come back to the pastime of planning trips.. So far in September: Miami to Paris Paris to Miami Miami to…
Sep 15, 2010
A note on Happiness…
We all want to be Happy.. is it a sensation of feeling High? a sense of contendment? the rush of acquiring material goods? Are Rich people happier than the Poor?…
Sep 15, 2010
I Am Not Responsible I Am Around People
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE I am around people who are self made in the business world, junior executives, partners, lawyers, accountant chiefs, and absolutely dislike their collective aim that bottom…