Mar 15, 2012
Homage to an Indian Patient of Ours: Patience does produce results
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE NEVER GIVE UP ON A PATIENT OF YOURS AND IN FACT ON ANOTHER HUMAN BEING FOR THAT MATTER. About ten years ago,…
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.
Mar 15, 2012
A country eats well and traditionally and is not Fat: the case of Morocco
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE GASTRONOMIC PLEASURES OF SOUTHERN MOROCCO I distinctly remember, handwritten over a small Taco Bar/Resto in Merida, Mexico: To eat well, is not…
Mar 15, 2012
RELATIONSHIP MORE IMPORTANT THAN TECHNOLOGY
RELATIONSHIP MORE IMPORTANT THAN TECHNOLOGY WHEN IT COMES TO CARING FOR PATIENTS: A GOOD LESSON FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD When I try to talk to colleagues in the developing world…
Mar 15, 2012
19 March 2012 Toulouse, France and I am suddenly so alone
During this day of immense sadness, what comes to my mind is a poem by Pablo Neruda Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE “It was half past eleven…
Mar 15, 2012
AU REVOIR, FRANCE.. I WANT TO GO HOME
This morning the sun has risen and a bright morning is in store.. Just exactly one week ago, around this time, in Toulouse, a father took his two children to…
Mar 15, 2012
Malacca to Phnom Penh: A Wandering Jewish Endocrinologist
The Wandering Jewish Endocrinologist, in anthropological parlance, The Other who has a Name.. in just a couple of days, so much happens, so much does happen in the course of…
Mar 15, 2012
OCCASIONAL PLEASURES OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE
International Medicine has its own rewards most of which are not quantifiable. The satisfaction of helping others and also abiding by the true nature of the human idea of sacrificing…
Feb 15, 2012
Blue House among the UmonHon Indians
Just imagine, tonight is Monday, and on Friday night past I was having a Khmer/French dinner at Le Rits’ Boutique Hotel in Phnom Penh. Today I am in Walthill, in…
Feb 15, 2012
A day in the Life of a Medical Anthropologist
What do Medical Anthropologists do anyway? I dont know about others, This is one day, more than 24 hours.. but felt like one day. Early out of bed from the…
Feb 15, 2012
ANTHROPOLOGICAL VISION OF SCIENCE : AN ANCIENT METHOD
NATURE DICTATES AND SCIENCE PROVES The role of the anthropologist is to act as a translator between cultures and thus make available concepts in a more appreciated and understandable form.…
Feb 15, 2012
Maroosh Lebanese Restaurant in Coral Gables, Miami
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2012/02/maroosh-lebanese-restaurant-in-coral.html
Feb 15, 2012
Photos from La Habana, Cuba
Hope my friends can see these photographs taken recently in Nuestra Ciudad San Cristobal de la HABANA, Cuba..
Feb 15, 2012
FOOD INSECURITY AND POOR HEALTH. CAN DEPRESSION MAKE YOU CHOOSE BAD FOOD? ANXIETY ABOUT FOOD AND OBESITY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FOOD INSECURITY AND POOR HEALTH. CAN DEPRESSION MAKE YOU CHOOSE BAD FOOD? ANXIETY ABOUT FOOD AND OBESITY Two medical Journals in my…
Feb 15, 2012
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE, ITS TIME HAS COME : Yoga, Philosophical Counseling, Homeopathic Medications in addition to the Western Allopathic One
I am a Physician and most of my patients suffer from Chronic Diseases, most of them correctable if social situations permitted a greater autonomy for the patients. So I am…
Feb 15, 2012
The Cuban Love of Paris
OTHER CUBANS IN PARIS, THE OTHER UNENDING FIESTA I know P who is Cuban, who after the many years still has not lost his habanero accent, but he adores the…
Feb 15, 2012
TRAVEL IS THE SADDEST OF ALL PLEASURES
I am looking out through the large glass window/door to the last vestiges of the last snow flakes,as it very rarely snows in Paris. But the past few days have…
Feb 15, 2012
PARIS TO SINGAPOUR : HOW IS A MIND TO ADJUST
LET ALONE ONE'S STOMACH? Let alone the Stomach? The distances covered over three previous generations were done in one flight, Air France Being 777-300, a long and boring flight.. a…
Feb 15, 2012
ZHENG HE AND SINGAPORE
THOSE REMARKABLE MEN OF SINGAPOUR What brought Drs T and C on to my humble path of Travel? Travel by a great Chinese Admiral, in fact the greatest ever.. beats…