Antarctica: Graveyard of the Icebergs

By Howard Sachs, MD, PhD
I’m sure that most of you have visited cemeteries in the US, containing the graveyards of friends, or relatives, often a sobering experience, a final resting place, following the end of existence. Here I was on the Antarctic peninsular, overlooking Pleneau Bay, the graveyard of the icebergs, a place where these [...]

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Part 5: Islamic Asia, 1976

Part 5: Experiences in Islamic Asia, 1976
By Howard Sachs, MD, PhD
After a total of seven days trekking in the Himalayas, I descended into India.
I even met up with people who directed me to a bus station. I explained to a clerk that I wanted to go to Istanbul, and he then sold me a series [...]

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Part 4: Trekking in Nepal

Third World Part 4: Trekking in the Himalayas
by Howard, MD, PhD.
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Once in Kathmandu, I was in the highest country in the world but, with an amazing geography, extending from about 200 feet above sea level, in the southern Terai, to the highest point on earth, [...]

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Part 3: Third World and Travel to Nepal

Third World Part 3: Nepal and the Himalayan Experience
By Howard, MD, PhD
For several months, there was unceasing, hard work at the isolated hospital at Madugoda, Sri Lanka, making daily rounds on the wards, the emergency and outpatient departments, and vaccinating several hundred children against, yes, measles, mumps and chicken pox and cholera in clinics [...]

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Part 2: Third World Medicine and Travel to Sri Lanka

Baptism Into Third World Medicine, Part II
By Howard, MD, PhD
Once armed with the names addresses of the professors at the medical school at Candy, Sri Lanka, I wrote to them, expressing my interest in third world medicine, and asked if I could come and learn and perhaps help in the teaching of biochemistry, in which [...]

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