Supper in Sapa

Today, I had a nice discussion with a patient, Martin, about whether eating meat is healthy. Martin’s brother is a butcher in Mexico. In the butcher’s small town, an animal is slaughtered and processed by hand before being sold directly to villagers. Martin told me how the meat is much paler than what we see in the supermarkets here. Does that mean it’s not as fresh? No, it’s likely...

Back from Vietnam

Back from Vietnam. My husband Walter and I had a fascinating trip. We took an overnight train to Sapa, just below the border of China. Here you can see a medicine woman from one of the mountain tribes in the area dispensing herbs and advice. She may have walked up to half a day to get to this market. In the photo below you can see some type of...