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Writing by the Water

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DR. DAPS

A storytelling blog of my journeys through the medical system, the world and life itself.

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San Francisco weekend

Although you can't always take vacation time off from work, sometimes you can take a weekend drive to all the beautiful destinations all...

Poverty Medicine in Nepal in 1990

I read an article in the Guardian in 2018 that the term Poverty Medicine was coined by a US physician named Raymond Downing in 2001 on...

Mental Health and Mental Illness

In the middle of May, the mental health awareness month, I went to a fantastic lecture on mental health by Ross Szabo, the wellness...

The legend of Navy Ship Lam Giang HQ 402

09/04/2021 After many transfers of troops and people from the Central region, HQ 402 entered the shipyard for minor repairs. The...

An Ode to LA

I had a Blade Runner moment this evening. Los Angeles has been raining and raining and raining for weeks now and coincidentally I have...

De-stigmatizing Mental Illness

I don't mind a good bout of crying every now and then. Crying releases the build-up of negative emotions like sadness and anger in a...

Navajo Country- Walking in Beauty

Walking in Beauty: Closing Prayer from the Navajo Blessing Way Ceremony In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind...

The Tripledemic and the Immune System

I kept meaning to write about one of the crises facing the medical system today, either the severe lack of mental healthcare...

The Low-down on Breast Cancer

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. It is a particularly suspenseful month for me this year because we have not been scheduling as...

South Korea- Andong, Gyeongju, and Busan.

In our many family road trips through Europe and Asia, we've always relied on Google Maps for navigation. It works great most of the...

South Korea - Seoul and DMZ

A peninsula is defined as a land mass that is surrounded by water on three or most of its sides. An island is defined as a land mass...

Cambodia - Unforgotten

Since 1994, I have been involved with a group of Vietnamese American doctors who regularly go into remote villages in Vietnam where...

Escape to Hawaii- the Big Island

Kohala coast with a view of Maui in the distance Los Angeles is going through another Omicron surge, this time it's the BA.5 variant. ...

Making decisions for Mom.

I admitted Mrs. N to the hospital a couple of days before Mother's Day and discharged her to home hospice care just before Memorial Day. ...

Black April Blues

April has always been an emotional month for Vietnamese living abroad. April 30th, 1975 was the day that Saigon fell, ending the Vietnam...

Happy Women's Day

A handmade card from my daughter a few years ago. For all of my life, I've had more than my fair share of blessings. Those blessings...

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