May 15, 2019
GLOBAL HEALTH PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST . DOES THAT EXIST ?
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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.
Apr 15, 2019
VITAMIN AND MINERALS SUPPLEMENTED TAKEN INDISCRIMINATELY MAY HARM YOU
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Apr 15, 2019
CHETTINAD FOOD IN LONDON AND YET ANOTHER KERALA ENCOUNTER
The night was chilly, but the damp cold of London did not hinder my walking around my most centrally based hotel in London. I was determined to eat South Indian…
Mar 15, 2019
THE TOLERANT MULTICULTURALISM OF YANGON MYANMAR
Rangoon 2019 Pablo Neruda was posted as Chilean Consul to Burma in 1927 Neruda wrote evocatively of Myanmar’s bustling, multiethnic colonial capital: “The street became my religion. The Burmese street,…
Mar 15, 2019
KERALA FOLLOWS ME AROUND… LATELY MEETING SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS IN MY TRAVELS
Kerala follows me around ...? I do not travel to INDIA but paradoxically enough once every two months, Manolo the driver from Bristows Bungalow, the only hotel facing the ocean…
Feb 15, 2019
EASTER ISLAND TO PALERMO IN BUENOS AIRES AND A MATE HABIT IS BORN
Under a very hot sun, with only a slight breeze from the oceanfront just a few feet away, my good sister-friend from Rapa Nui and I were looking at the…
Jan 15, 2019
SCREAM MUNCH AGONY OF THE TIMES
Oslo and Norway hold special places in my heart. For a naive australian young man visiting northern europe for the first time and incredibly susceptible to the romance of the…
Dec 15, 2018
MY FIRST TRIP ON GEORGIAN AIRWAYS PARIS TO TBILISI TO TEL AVIV
I do not make my travel plans far in advance and this time of the year is dreadful for spontaneous travel. I wanted to go from Miami to Brussels, spend…
Nov 15, 2018
FLYING AMERICAN AIRLINES : LOYALTY STILL MATTERS
I used to be a loyal Delta Airlines flier and when they changed their Frequent Flier programme, I switched to United Airlines and when they devalued their programme switched to…
Nov 15, 2018
I AM IN LOVE WITH ………QATAR AIRWAYS
My first flight with Qatar Airways was in February 2014, I think: IAH DOH CGK DOH BRU. Since then I have made every attempt to fly QR Qatar Airways when…
Nov 15, 2018
A GREAT HONOUR TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEMORY OF THE GREATEST ADMIRAL OF THE SEVEN SEAS CHENG HO/ZHENG HE
I cannot remember when I first heard about Cheng HO, the greatest navigator who travelled the realms of the Ming dynasty over the course of many journeys, as far as…
Sep 15, 2018
24 HOURS IN LA HABANA, CUBA EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HAVANA AND CUBA
How wonderful it is to be back in La Habana, Cuba. I can proudly say and feel, I live in Havana, Cuba. I will upload pictures of my first 24…
Aug 15, 2018
UNTIL DEATH DO WE PART: MODERN WORK CULTURE AND DEATH AND DISEASE
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Aug 15, 2018
POOR COMPLICATED STATE OF DIABETES CARE IN THE USA : DRUG COMPANIES AND PROFESSOR PAWNS
Despite the enormous amount of money poured into the system, the diabetes care outcome in the Unites States remain dramatically UNCHANGED over the years. There has been an onslaught of…
Jul 15, 2018
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ARROGANCE AND ITS TOTAL DOMINANCE
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Jul 15, 2018
AMAZING SPIRIT WORLD OF AMAZONIA
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Jul 15, 2018
ANOTHER DEFINITION OF TOURIST AND ITS DISTINCTION FROM TRAVELLER
A tourist may arrive at a destination or a place, perhaps because of a PUSH factor in their life, failed romance or marriage; workplace, with difficulties with co workers or…
Jul 15, 2018
WELCOME TO HAVANA: GOOD PLACE TO REST YOUR HEART AND BODY AMONG FRIENDS
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