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.
I have had two days of absolute tranquility, calm and mental balance. No one else is in this house, I have my coffee at the patio looking at the green…
Last night I felt an excitement which I couldn't explain and always reminded me of my Meskwakia teacher : What a pity you are not smart enough to understand all…
It was a nice day here in Miami today. The weather was picture perfect. I had contact with many of my friends around the world. The men of letters that…
A little History: I used to make a side trip to Bangalore when I visited Cochin to visit the Premier Bookstore, alas no more, the owner migrated to Australia, I…
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
I am familiar with the health care systems in many parts of the world. The best, in my opinion, has been the one in FRANCE and the most chaotic is…
When asked to accompany an European-Australian to go for a run around a football field, an Australian aboriginal person accepted the invitation and ran with him around the ground. When…
While we were reading Medicine at the University, we are taught about the glucose excursions after a meal, in such a fashion. A powerpoint goes up and the teacher explains:…
I have had the privilege of working with Indigenous peoples, in many countries around the world, and had become absorbed in to studying how to make their metabolism recover from…
TODAY IS FEBRUARY 21, 2021 There has been a Dramatic drop in the number of cases of Covid 19 infections being diagnosed in the USA. Medical Scientists would give one…
Despite having Passports of two First World Countries, which allows me entry into most countries in this world, I am a Covid Refugee. I have an occupation I have a…
It is 4 pm in the afternoon The sun is fading in the horizon leaving that tender touch on your skin A medical student in London is making tea A…
Western Intellectual thought does not denote thoughts of the Western people, but a strain of philosophy which was born and nurtured in the Western world, adopted as their own by…
The United States like other colonized countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and all of Latin America from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, do not have a good record…
NEW YORK TIMES like BBC has interesting tidbits and well annotated social accounts very seldom found in more popular commercial news media. Who propagated the idea that Breakfast is the…
It was one of my professors of Medicine in Miami, Dr Howard Lessner, Olav ha shalom, who said to me: the drug companies would send you lots of free materials…
AMERICA OR USA is a land of immigrants and more so as each year goes by. When you are in a city like Miami you realize that your chance of…
Very few Practising Physicians are also Medical Anthropologists, this applies to the entire world. In the USA, there are excellent Medical Anthropologists but the majority of them are not physicians…
