by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 25, 2022 | Fight the Good Fight
Dr. David Charash is a longtime friend and colleague in the field of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He’s passionate about Diving Medicine and is producing a series of podcasts on Fitness In Diving. It’s the first ever podcast on the topic and will feature...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 21, 2022 | Healthcare Payment Policy
I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First, the Good News CMS (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has approved 9 wound-care and hyperbaric medicine relevant quality measures for the 2022 reporting year. The quality measures were developed...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 20, 2022 | COVID-19
I just ordered my 4 “free” COVID tests. It was easy. https://www.covidtests.gov/ –Caroline Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving patient outcomes through quality driven care. Please visit my blog...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 5, 2022 | Fight the Good Fight
I wonder how much money hospitals have spent on misguided ideas to raise staff morale during COVID. We now have mood cards in the clinic break room. What am I supposed to do with them? Should I clip one to my coat today? The Red one says I am “ill,” but the list of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 21, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out this article by Vicki Stearn in Today’s Wound Clinic about Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs). I met Vicki Stearn professionally through our mutual involvement in the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders and in a chance conversation, she mentioned...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 20, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
At the recent fall SAWC meeting, Brian McCurdy, the Managing Editor for Today’s Wound Clinic and I as Clinical Editor, did a video interview about the trends we see in the wound care industry and how we develop relevant content. Here’s the video! TWC 2022 from HMP on...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 7, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. We can vaguely understand how the Greatest Generation felt by comparing it to the impact of 9/11 on our generation. However, as terrible as 9/11 was, it doesn’t compare to the attack on Pearl Harbor. On the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 7, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
My most recent editorial in Today’s Wound Clinic is a tirade about what appears to me to be a lack of common sense and basic medical knowledge on the part of physicians. It’s not due to Covid but the pandemic has made all our weaknesses more obvious. A few nights ago...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 26, 2021 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Last week I enjoyed a relaxed, unscripted conversation with Dr. Helen Gelly about trends in wound care audits and charge denials, with a live audience Q&A. You can watch the recording of the conversation and Q&A below. You can also find the audio of this event...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 22, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
I read Nathaniel Philbrick’s book Mayflower and it’s the antidote to self-pity if you need to snap out of it at Thanksgiving. We forget that when the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving, what they were thankful for was just being ALIVE. I’d like to focus on different...
