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.
AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE, DANIEL KAHNEMAN When I began working with the Indians, it looked like they were intent on educating this “tribal” boy into the ways…
If you are reading airline magazines or on the net browsing, every now and then you come across the ads: How does this neurosurgeon look so good without his scrubs?…
This is the first time, in a very long while, that I have spent any time as a tourist in the capital of Malaysia. First of all, I have to…
MEDICAL CARE IN AN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRY STORY OF IGNORANCE, GREED AND SUFFERING Let us call this South East Asian country, Srivijaya. Charming people, wonderful smiles, tolerant of others, they had…
FRIENDS, FOOD AND FAR EAST 4TH TIME IN 2014 Miami-Newark-Hong Kong-Singapore-Kuala Lumpur-Siem Reap-Kuala Lumpur-Bangkok-Amman-Tel Aviv-Istanbul-Brussels Trip 3 Miami-New York-Hong Kong-Kuala Lumpur-Yangon-Bangkok-Siem Reap-Kuala Lumpur-Kuala Trengganu-Kuala Lumpur-Jakarta-Tokyo-Chicago-Charlotte-Fort Lauderdale Trip 2
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES: WHY IT MAY FOLD! Simple things about an enterprise or a government give clues to why it is bound to fail or succeed. Why has Pakistan failed so…
Nature vs Nurture Science vs Entrepreneurial While watching a short video about some of the eye boggling science that is coming out of Israel, I began thinking about Nature vs…
One of the earliest lines of Spanish Poetry that made me want to learn the tongue of Cervantes, was, read on my way from school in Sweden to home in…
It is morning in Miami, Florida, USA, nearly half the world away from a tragedy unfolding over South East Asia. MH 370 has disappeared over the ocean, piloted by a…
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS I have been lucky to have been able to combine my profession (Medicine) , my passion (Anthropology) and Travel, almost always combining the three.…
The Jakarta Post is an English Language newspaper published in Indonesia and as regional newspapers go it has less parochial and more of an international slant than Straits Times of…
About to arrive at Doha, thank you J,T of QR for a most pleasant flight. Also to K, M, D,J (Ind/Thai/Ph/Pak/SL/Par) What a glorious end to a short and sweet…
QATAR AIRWAYS CHANGING THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL AVIATION I just had a chance to fly Qatar Airways from CGK to DOH, use their Premium Terminal there and carry on to…
HAPPY CONTENT YEAR OF THE HORSE FOR MY CHINESE FRIENDS PROSPEROUS LUNAR YEAR OF TET TO MY VIETNAMESE FRIENDS I was quite happy to obtain a ticket from Miami to…
2013 has been a good year for travel..the usual culprits UK, which to me still remains London France, which this year were visits to Quiberon, Bretagne Belgium, where it was…
Things happen for a reason. Who would have thought that a smile that was returned on a cold morning in March 2012 at Omaha Airport would have led to so…
WHY DO I TRAVEL TO OMAN WHY IS IT SO SPECIAL When I sent emails from Salalah, Oman on a recent stopover there, a good friend of mine asked: Why…
Eleven articles arrived on a peer reviewed Diabetes and Metabolism Journal this morning. What was very interesting to note was that the authors were not from the usual developed countries…
