by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 3, 2023 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT
Like me, you were probably riveted and inspired by the “COVID Diaries,” which chronicled the challenges of an intensive care doctor during the early and worst days of the COVID pandemic. The author is now focused on the subacute care of the survivors and is...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 13, 2023 | COVID-19, Healthcare Payment Policy
I got an email from a fantastic wound clinic manager who is worried about the less than stellar documentation she’s noted on the part of her advanced practitioners. She’s trying to raise the bar on wound care documentation and asked me how best to do that. That’s a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 6, 2022 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation estimates more than 23 million Americans have been affected by long COVID, which is why it is being described as a “mass disabling event.” It’s officially a disability under the Americans with Disability Act...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 21, 2022 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
COVID-19 infection can lead to a wide range of persistent physical, neurocognitive, and neuropsychological symptoms. I have seen a lot of patients (and a few friends) suffer from “long haul COVID,” and personally, the possibility of living with long term cognitive...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 27, 2022 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
On March 26th, 2020, I posted the first installment of the COVID Diaries, written by a critical care doctor who was on call in the Intensive Care Unit the weekend that the first desperately sick COVID-19 patients began to show up at her hospital. As the tidal wave of...
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. | 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. | Aug 5, 2021 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
I’m sorry to say that the courageous author of “COVID Diaries” is back working in the ICU, preparing for another wave of critically sick COVID patients. In my own suburban hospital, there are 75 COVID patients hospitalized right now, 72 of whom are unvaccinated...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 26, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
An article by Ranjan and colleagues (not yet peer reviewed and available as a pre-print doi describes the grim reality of the second wave of COVID-19 in India. Every day the number of infected people doubles. The exponential increase suggests that the infection rate...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 20, 2021 | COVID-19, Fight the Good Fight
In 1996, Sackett and colleagues published, “Evidence-Based Medicine: What it Is and What it Isn’t.” The incessant drum beat of the “hierarchy of evidence” has caused physicians to forget that the aim of EBM is to, “integrate the experience of the clinician, the...
