by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 28, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
Here’s a guest blog from a friend and colleague who practices Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and is also a Critical Care physician. I believe that she should remain anonymous for now. However, I was inspired by the emails and texts she has sent me and thought you...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 27, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
Here’s a guest blog from a friend and colleague who practices Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and is also a Critical Care physician. I believe that she should remain anonymous for now. However, I was inspired by the emails and texts she has sent me and thought you...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 26, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
Here’s a guest blog from a friend and colleague who practices Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and is also a Critical Care physician. I believe that she should remain anonymous for now. However, I was inspired by the emails and texts she has sent me and thought you...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 25, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program
As a result of COVID-19, CMS has extended the 2019 MIPS reporting deadline to April 30, 2020. Click here to read the full press release. Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving patient outcomes through quality driven...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 24, 2020 | Miscellaneous Musings
I am a history buff and a packrat, descended from a long line of history-loving packrats. However, I was still surprised to find these historical treasures in the attic – a box of WWII “propaganda posters.” My father fought in WWII and married my beautiful...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 19, 2020 | Do the Right Thing: Thoughts on Quality, Healthcare Payment Policy
Special guest blog post by Marissa Carter, PhD Predicting Healing on the First Visit (for venous ulcers and other wound types) There is a lot of interest in “predictive models” for chronic wounds and ulcers. The ideal predictive model can predict at the FIRST VISIT...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 17, 2020 | Miscellaneous Musings
If you are looking for something uplifting to watch with your family while you are stuck at home, you might try to find End of the Spear. Although it’s a low-budget movie from 2005, the story is one you cannot make up. It is based on events which took place in 1956,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 11, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Check out the guest editorial by Dr. Traci Kimball in the March issue of Today’s Wound Clinic: Can a Unique Wound Management Program Be a Model for Wound Care? I invited Traci to write this guest editorial, because we need to hear from wound management physicians who...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 10, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Check out the article in the March issue of Today’s Wound Clinic by Dr. Helen Gelly – Patient Relationship Codes: Why We Need Them and the Unintended Consequences of Using Them. The patient relationship codes are vital to both Wound Management and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 9, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight
I know I will get flowers on my birthday because nearly every year, it’s when the Texas wildflowers bloom. A dense field of Texas bluebonnets waving in the wind creates the optical illusion of water. It’s a tradition to photograph children among the bluebonnets. This...
