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Delays in Diabetic Shoe Authorization Give Us All a Black Eye

Delays in Diabetic Shoe Authorization Give Us All a Black Eye

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 28, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

Here’s the good news- this patient had a limb threatening diabetic foot ulcer that might be the deepest and biggest lesion I have ever treated with a total contact cast, and it healed. However, I had to keep her in the TCC while we waited for the paperwork from...
The Price of Figs and The Gift of Pain

The Price of Figs and The Gift of Pain

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 25, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, The Patient's Voice

Wound care is so gratifying. I love watching things get better. This is a wonderful patient who required 6 months to heal after surgery for osteomyelitis. He got his orthotics and I thought we were home free, but his fig trees bloomed and he spent an afternoon picking...
The Secret to Treating Lymphedema & Skin Breakdown

The Secret to Treating Lymphedema & Skin Breakdown

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 22, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

I am really struggling with lymphedema and skin breakdown on the foot of a wonderful patient. He has an above knee amputation on the other side, and is actually able to walk on an AKA prosthesis which is rare in my experience. The fact that this is his ONLY foot makes...
Food as Medicine – Part 5

Food as Medicine – Part 5

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 8, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Quality Payment Program

What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. Sometimes nutrition is the medicine. This is a wonderful patient over 90 years old who is still driving and mentally alert. He sustained...
Food as Medicine – Part 4

Food as Medicine – Part 4

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 7, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Quality Payment Program

What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them   I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. It’s so easy to overlook nutritional issues. Recently I saw a fairly young woman who suffered from juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and...
Food as Medicine – Part 3

Food as Medicine – Part 3

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 5, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Quality Payment Program

What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. It is amazing how prevalent nutritional deficits are among patients with non-healing wounds. In late March I saw a woman with severe ulcers...
Looking Back on Harvey

Looking Back on Harvey

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 1, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

When the sun broke through for the first time on this Tuesday at about 6 PM, I went outside to take a picture of the sky. The sun looked so beautiful. That day pictures of the sun were everywhere on social media. Most days in August, Texans long for a break from the...
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