Jun 15, 2020
A SPECIAL SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI
The Sun has set in Miami, the three stars have appeared, bursting through the still blue skies. Today is a special welcome to the Shabbat I prepare to light 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.
May 15, 2020
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO VOLUNTEER IN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE
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…
May 15, 2020
THE DEATH OF AN INDIAN IN THE AMAZONAS KADDISH FOR ANTONIO AND THE OCAINA ..AS SOON AS I CAN TRAVEL TO LETICIA
I have been thinking of Leticia on the Colombian Amazon, bordering with Tabatinga in Brasil as well as across the stream from Santa Rosa in Peru. I really want to…
May 15, 2020
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH: A CONCEPT WHOSE TIME HAS COME FOR DOCTORS TO UNDERSTAND
NEJM or New England Journal of Medicine or when in context of a medical conversation truncated to New England, is the leading medical publishing house in the USA. We are…
May 15, 2020
WHEN YOU FORGET YOUR RITUALS YOU LOOSE A PART OF YOUR ANCIENT CONNECTION TO THE UNIVERSE
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…
May 15, 2020
DONT KNOCK THE COCCONUT OIL .. JUST FIND OUT WHETHER IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR GENES ..
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…
May 15, 2020
INFLAMMATION ASSOCIATED CHRONIC DISEASES: A TIME TO REEVALUATE OUR MEDICAL APPROACHES
I remember that day clearly, at a clinic for indigenous people. The doctor to whom I was speaking was a Pakistani, who was working in that remote location, fulfilling requirements…
Apr 15, 2020
WESTERN DIET MAY CREATE A FORM OF IMMUNE DEFICIENCY ? EXCITING RESEARCH FROM GERMANY
CELL IS a wonderful medical journal which over the years has given me pleasure with absolutely new knowledge. Researchers around the world are working on so many miracles, so when…
Apr 15, 2020
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STATE OF KERALA: INTELLIGENT EDUCATED POPULATION AND A GOVERNMENT THAT CARES FOR THE PEOPLE
What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19 The inside story of how one Indian state is flattening the curve through epic levels of contact tracing…
Apr 15, 2020
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 I have had the pleasure of visiting Indigenous groups in most of the…
Apr 15, 2020
THANK YOU AMAZON PRIME ….BRING ME THE MATZO ON TIME
Whenever I mention Amazon, you know I am talking about my projects with the Indigenous peoples along the magnificent river Amazon Not this time this time about Amazon Prime delivery..…
Apr 15, 2020
YET ANOTHER BAD NEWS FROM THE YANOMAMI
It is with the greatest of sadness that I read the news that the remote Yanomami have been afflicted with the Covid-19 The current government of Brasil is not at…
Apr 15, 2020
CUBAN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO ANDORRA. IN ADDITION TO OTHER 13 INTENATIONAL MISSIONS SO FAR TO COMBAT COVID-19
CUBAN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO ANDORRA This morning I woke up to read the good news that Cuban Medical Brigade is in the tiny Pyrenean country of ANDORRA helping them with…
Apr 15, 2020
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION IN MIAMI …
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION ? NO ANXIETY NO FEAR BUT SHEER JOY OF FRIENDS FROM NEAR AND FAR. 30 APRIL 2020 IN MIAMI WHICH IS UNDER LOCKDOWN The…
Apr 15, 2020
MY HEART IS BROKEN OVER THE PLIGHT OF THE INDIANS OF THE AMAZONIA AT THIS DIFFICULT TIMES
Para escapar do coronavírus, Yanomami se refugiam no interior da Floresta To escape the Coronavirus, Yanomami take refuge in the Interior of the Forest My Heart is Broken tonight It…
Apr 15, 2020
THRIFTY GENE, DR.MARCELA LeBEAU AND SNP ON ABCA1 GENE: A CENTURY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND DIABETES
Thrifty Gene, Dr. Marcela LeBeau and SNP on ABCA1 gene. A century of American Indians and Diabetes When I first read about J.V.Neel’s Thrifty gene theory, I was immediately attracted…
Mar 15, 2020
LOVE OF THE LANGUAGE. ENGLISH AND LOVE OF THE LANGUAGES. SPANISH FRENCH AND PORTUGUESE
I am a traveller, so it is only natural that I hear various languages in my travels, some common, some uncommon and some rare. The most common languages for me…
Mar 15, 2020
WHERE DOES WORK END AND LIFE BEGIN ? REFLECTIONS ON UNCERTAIN TIMES
I was a young boy when I across this saying in one of the journals that arrived once a month: Life is a long holiday with Intervals of work. I…