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Don't Miss This – Fingernail Findings

Don't Miss This – Fingernail Findings

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 30, 2018 | Don't Miss This, Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

It’s good to be reminded that wounds are a symptom of a disease or diseases. The things we see from day to day are amazing. Here’s a quiz about fingernails. This little lady weighs less than 100 lbs. and is nearly as many years old. She worked as a welder...
A Great Way to Teach Children History on Memorial Day

A Great Way to Teach Children History on Memorial Day

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 25, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

My Dad was a veteran of WWII and Korea and my husband is a veteran. On Memorial Day I find myself wanting to go somewhere to pay tribute our service men and women. My Mother, my son and I usually go to The Brazos Valley Veteran’s Memorial in College Station. It is one...
Wound Care Specialists and Primary Physicians – A Productive Saturday in May

Wound Care Specialists and Primary Physicians – A Productive Saturday in May

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 23, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing

On Saturday May 19th I joined Drs. Jay Shah, Noel Oliveira and Rafael Rafols at the Texas Medical Association (TMA) meeting in San Antonio, Texas for the first ever wound care CME event at a TMA meeting. We focused on wound care for the primary care physician, and it...
Tugboats, End Results, and the Professional Obligation to Participate in a Registry

Tugboats, End Results, and the Professional Obligation to Participate in a Registry

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 11, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

Ernest Codman, an 1895 Harvard Medical School graduate, became a surgeon at the turn of the 20th century. He spent his life on a crusade to reform surgical practice and medical care, formulating what he called the “end result system” in which he...
New Cars, Fiscal Cliffs, Mothers-in-Law & MIPS

New Cars, Fiscal Cliffs, Mothers-in-Law & MIPS

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 8, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

My Dad’s definition of mixed emotions was watching your mother in law drive off a cliff in your new car. (Truth be told, his mother in law adored him and vice versa.)  There’s a lot of back and forth about the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), and it’s hard...
Green Eggs and Ham – and  Antimicrobial Dressings

Green Eggs and Ham – and Antimicrobial Dressings

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 2, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

Last week my iPhone spontaneously created one of those “bursts” – you know what I am talking about –  “This time last year,” which would have been so sweet, except it was a series of saturated dressings ranging in color from green to brown that looked like...
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