by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 29, 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 28, 2020 | COVID-19
(EDIT 3/29/20): We still don’t know this doctor’s identity, but we have received a link to his original post for attribution. This is an open letter to the ER Doctor in New Orleans whose message below came to me on an email thread: Thank you for granting...
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...
