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.
The Covid 19 pandemic has revealed many wrongful aspects of our societies. We tend to concentrate on the disparity of wealth, social order and race relations. One positive aspect that…
BRASIL has always been in my mind’s horizon. I have been lucky to see a small part of this immensely diverse country, from the Argentina border at Foz do Iguassu…
MIGRATION THROUGH LIFE A threat to the Planet as well as at an individual level is/has been present over the past three months. We have become open to the sufferings…
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES NECESSARY I hold Medecins sans Frontieres in high esteem. It was founded in 1971 by Bernard Kouchner and a coterie of French doctors and…
THE CULTURE OF FEAR DURING THE TIME OF CORONA Following the pandemic situation around the world, it Is becoming obvious that one of the more misinformed countries is the United…
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole The islands of Hawaii played an important part in my life at certain stage of intellectual growth. I was torn between the native people of USA and the…
I read an interesting article published in a leading medical journal. May 6, 2020 Religious Service Attendance and Deaths Related to Drugs, Alcohol, and Suicide Among US Health Care Professionals…
There has been a disproportionate number of deaths from this virus, Covid-19, in France in 2020. If you look at the map, you would see a disproportionate number of infections…
When my association with the indigenous people began, I wanted to learn why they are being marginalized, disliked and accused by people who came to their lands centuries later. Who…
The Effect of Coconut Oil Consumption on Cardiovascular Risk Factors A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials When I first saw this article title, I thought of my Polynesian…
A lovely spring day in Miami. The leaves are growing in front of your eyes. Tall trees shadier by the day. On such a day I finished reading Murakami, Haruki's…
I have lived in four countries where English in various forms is the official language: Australia, England, USA and Jamaica 3 other countries where English is spoken but not the…
I have chosen to love three different countries other than my own: USA , Israel and Cuba. This is the story about the three of them. While hard hit countries…
Limbo vs Liminality These two words have tremendous significance and relevance in the situation we are going through and the state of our societies even before the calamities stepped in…
THE USA is ranked at Number 70.. I applaud ISRAEL for its efforts and early containment. Both Germany and Austria did well. so did Australia and New Zealand. Kudos to…
There is no visible symbol in the west that has been associated with another entire hemisphere such as the MASK. People stared at Japanese tourists politely had their masks on…
COORS BELLY OR CORONA BELLY ? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE When I was growing up in Australia, BEER BELLY was a common phenomenon to be seen as this photograph by…
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…. THE ORIGINS OF RACISM IN MODERN TIMES? I was sitting on the stretch of grass behind my sister’s house in Miami. I…
