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.
PLANET OF PRE-DIABETES OR HOW I GOT A DISCOUNT AT A PHOTOSHOP IN COLOMBIAN AMAZON One visionary leader in the year 2000 went against the then enthusiastic endorsement of globalization…
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE EMERGING WORLD Personal thoughts about IRAN INDIA MALAYSIA The idea to write this blog came when I was on a long distance flight reading FT of…
Recently while in the Amazon River region, I was asked: what do you do keep yourself healthy? There are Medical and Anthropological answer to this question and surprisingly enough, they…
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE When you are with Indigenous people, you begin to understand intuitively, myth, history, symbolism. Claude Levi-Strauss recognized this 80 years ago when he worked…
History repeats itself From Trudeau to Trudeau Vive CANADA One calculates time with changes in environment that influences ones thinking and changes its direction. 40 years ago Pierre Trudeau led…
I was so touched by this article that I have decided to put the entire article without editorializing. Brave doctor, who lived by a cyanide tablet by his side, so…
BORN IN CUBA, RAISED IN MIAMI, FIRST DEGREE FROM UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, THE SECOND ONE, A DOCTORATE IN PSYCHOLOGY, FROM YALE SHE IS A CUBAN-AMERICAN, PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE…
I was more than happy to be a guest lecturer at the invitationn of the head of the programme at the Sacred Heart College in Cochin. Meeting the Principal of…
Homecoming to Cochin It is incredible how quickly everything begins to look so familiar and that which once threatened you, no well incorporated into your life There is always love…
BUENOS AIRES IN COCHIN I used to feel so elated walking along the streets of Palermo, listening with intent, long faded footsteps of Jorge Luis Borges. BA and its culture…
I am grateful for being able to travel more often, due to my unconventional lifestyle. I had always wanted to travel, and still maintain that the desire to travel and…
Vikas is a Nepali whose family lives in Darjeeling in Northern India at the foot of the Himalayas. He works long hours as a waiter at Elite Restaurant at Princess…
Pablo Neruda had written that if you do not know or have a cultural identity, you are like a boat without an anchor, moving where the wind takes you, without…
THE CHRONIC STRESS OF POVERTY It is way past 7pm, and I have just returned to the Blue House after a day at a Medical Clinic, in an isolated part…
THE PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST in COLOMBIA When people ask me about my profession, I joyously answer: I am an Anthropologist. Don’t get me wrong, I love being a Medical Doctor, the…
THERE ARE NO OTHER, THE OTHER IS ME: INDIAN WISDOM A VERY SPECIAL SHABBAT SHALOM FROM SAO PAOLO IN BRASIL I had a wonderful day at USP- University of Sao…
The sun was setting as I drove into the village where the Blue House is located. One main road and at the end of the main road is the school…
Refugee Situation in Europe and the chance to cleanse our minds about FEAR of the OTHER Unprecedented numbers of people seeking refuge from war torn nations such as Syria, Iraq…
