THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DR. DAPS

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...

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

Everyone can trace their beginnings to their individual birthdays. That is where their story begins. Not everyone can trace their family...

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

Is it just me or is life just exploding back every which way after the pandemic? Or maybe it's the rain-soaked earth of California after...

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

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...

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

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

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

When we set out from Busan heading for Suncheon Bay Garden on day 6 of our South Korean road trip, the van alerted us that one of the...

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...

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...

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

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. ...

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. ...

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

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...

I've always been a bit of a foodie. No matter where I was, I would always try to look for the most authentically local dishes,...