MAR-B-1

A VERY DIFFERENT MAR-B-SERIES THAN
THE CUBAN ONE THAT HAD BEEN PLANNED EARLIER

  1. Index to the Mar-B-series
  2. All packed up and no place to go: Marazul Travel Agency’s incompetence cost me my trip to Havana for the IHMEC conference.
  3. With deepest regrets, I explain to IHMEC how it is that I am not in Cuba on the basis of the failure of Marazul to deliver tickets and documents as promised. 
  4. The combined itineraries for Dharamsala-’02 April and Nepal/Everest-’02 May. 
  5. An invitation to an International Health Lectureship series at MSU. 
  6. “Long-term follow-up:” now passed the silver anniversary of an operation done on my birthday. 
  7. My correspondence with Don Graham, Chairman of the Board of the Washington Post after meeting with him at the NFID Awards Dinner. 
  8. My letter to MAP, thanking them for their life-saving drugs included in the MAP packs I had intended to carry to Nepal, but were diverted by 9/11 to Malawi. 
  9. My letter to Nonin, thanking them for the pulse oximeters which have been distributed in mission hospitals for life-saving results in their effective use. 
  10. My response to a wilderness acquisition of a deer tick and its management. 
  11. In my unexpected week at home, I have an unanticipated evening with the rich and famous in a black tie awards dinner that finds me chatting with an unusual group of people, many of whom are household names and quite recognizable from cover stories about them in largely recent past power positions. 
  12. Consultation regarding a post-operative patient on anticoagulation for thromboembolism interested in climbing and scuba diving. 
  13. The Saint Paddy’s Day weekend from Frostburg State University to running and celebrating with Joe. 
  14. The reviving of my London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine connections. 
  15. And I am now recruiting down to the level of selected “gap girls” for our medical missions in India. 
  16. An Arabic-style diplomatic initiative employing a trusted emissary as negotiator to re-open discussions. 
  17. A litany of woe associated with Marazul incompetence. 
  18. The Inaugural Running of the new DC Marathon. 
  19. A new cruise ship lectureship to the ports of call along the Mexican coast to precede the Central American Odyssey in March ‘03. 

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