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When I was finishing my post graduate studies in Medicine (Endocrinology) my contemporaries were busy scouting for future residences and private practices. I was intent on an International Career which…
The bigger killer of human beings all across the world is Cardiovascular Diseases and in this study it has been pointed out that the MORTALITY from Cardiovascular Diseases (DEATH) is…
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES I have always wondered why the Cubans who live in the island are so kind and demonstrate a sense of solidarity that one rarely…
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I was visiting my friends BB and D who live in a small village of Sankt Mikael near the small town of Bleiburg along the Austrian alps. Both are natives…
As an endocrinologist, I believe that we must give hormones or supplements to people who demonstrate a definite deficiency and not on some empirical treatment that more may be better…
One of the first moments of consternation when trying to understand the philosophy of the Native Indians happened with the People of the Red Earth when my teacher said to…
our beloved SARAH is no more! I received three emails from Cochin today 30.08.2019 informing me that she had passed away. So many images passed through my mind. Jew Town…
HOW TO READ A MEDICAL ARTICLE WITH A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL EYE? A total of 41 studies published between 1963 and 2018 were included, of which 40 were classified as safe…
I have just returned to Miami after a 10 day trip to Europe in which I discovered a lovely part of Austria and also ventured into the mountainous parts of…
The morning was rather tender, the sun never shone so horridly that one takes refuge, and the day slipped into the afternoon, the tropics which are like hammocks for lovers…
Here I am in my sisters home in Miami , the evening is mild and I am listening to a new Iranian Singer to me, Faramarz Aslani and enjoying it…