by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 21, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
In this blog preview of my upcoming WoundCon Fall 2021 presentation, I propose the angiosome concept as a mechanism for “inside-out” pressure injury development. — Caroline Most clinicians know that some pressure injuries happen from the inside out because...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 20, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
Please join me on November 4, 2021 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET for a webinar entitled “Immunonutrition and Wounds.” Objectives: Describe wound prevalence and cost among Medicare beneficiaries State the specialized nutritional recommendations from...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 19, 2021 | Healthcare Payment Policy
I’ve mentioned that am a huge fan of Knicole Manuel. You should check out her latest blog post about Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) audits. The various Medicare regions were hitting wound care and hyperbaric medicine physicians/hospitals hard with TPEs prior to...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 15, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
Are you feeling a little sorry for yourself today? You probably have good reasons. How is self-pity working out as a coping mechanism? If you’d like to try a different approach, I know someone who can show you how. One of my heroes informed me that today is national...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 6, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” –Anne Frank It’s easy to think that one’s mood is determined by one’s circumstances, but Anne Frank didn’t believe that. Depression and despair, hope and happiness are the by-products...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 5, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
My wonderful nurse Jessica came up with the idea of a “Thankful Bulletin Board.” There are paper “leaves” available at the check-out desk so that patients can write down anything for which they are thankful, even if they are not yet healed....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 4, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
I had to get a COVID test to go to an in-person meeting and it’s obvious that the testing requirements for travel, meetings, etc. are a confused quagmire. Dr. Marissa Carter has posted an understandable overview of SARS-COVID testing on her blog that will be useful...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 30, 2021 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Tales of the Medicare Disadvantaged, The Patient's Voice
Here’s a new post from our Patient Correspondent, Patricia Han, RN, about Medicare Drug Plans. She’s a retired nurse with many chronic health problems who used to be employed by a payer. I always learn something that a doctor ought to know from her real world examples...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 29, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
This is the left foot of a 34-year-old African American woman who spent 21 days in the intensive care unit, hypotensive from sepsis and on vasopressors with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC). She lost all the toes on her right foot from ischemic necrosis....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 28, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Shin Radiation Madness
If you have shin radiation wound cases you have treated (successfully or not), use the form below to tell your story and I will post them. Do NOT send protected health information, and that means no initials or dates in the photos! At the very least we can make a...
