by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 16, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out the Today’s Wound Clinic guest editorial written by my friend and colleague, Monique Abner, MD about implicit bias, Wrestling With Implicit Bias to Deliver Better Care for Our Patients. I have been thinking a lot about bias since I started going to doctor’s...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out this fascinating article by my friend and colleague, Tom Bozzuto, DO published in Today’s Wound Clinic about “Herbal Treatments for Diabetic Foot Ulcers.” I have never heard of mountain papaya, maritime pine or marigolds being used for wound healing so I...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 13, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
CGS*, one of the Medicare Administrative Carriers (MACs) has released a quarterly status report on it’s “pre pay” review for surgical dressings. This “pre-pay” review is a major reason it has become so difficult to get wound dressings for patients. The most common...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 9, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
For almost two decades, I have had the privilege of working with Dr. Eva Sevick and Dr. John Rasmussen who developed real-time lymphatic imaging with indocyanine green. We’ve just published a review paper summarizing what we’ve learned about the function (and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 25, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Brian McCurdy, the Managing Editor of Today’s Wound Clinic, and I talked about a project we are working on to elevate the patient’s voice in wound care. Just prior to shooting this video, Brian and I interviewed Morgan McCoy about her journey (watch for that link...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 17, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
At the recent SAWC, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders. I’ve had the incredible privilege of co-chairing the Alliance just about since its inception. This video takes a walk down memory lane about all those visits to the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 3, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out the article which I wrote with Dr. Eva Sevick about our webinar: Myths Debunked! How Lymphatic Imaging is Changing Patient Treatment Plans at the invitation of LymphaPress as part of their “Thought Leader” series. I have to admit that this was one of the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 26, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
I have seen a lot of drug induced ulcerations and I bet you have, too. Some of them can be horrific. A colleague just emailed me to ask if I’d seen any Xylazine-related ulcerations. Xylazine (a veterinary anesthetic) can be used to cut fentanyl, heroin and sometimes...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 24, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Most people will consider this good news. When compared to non-coffee drinkers, consumption of up to four cups of coffee have a 29% reduced risk of all-cause mortality over a seven-year period and a 15% reduction in all cardiovascular disease. The highest consumers of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 21, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
I got a shock the first time I took off a patient’s dressing and found something like this over a wound. The patient had cut open a large leaf from her Aloe Vera plant and was using it as a wound treatment. I will admit that her innovation was driven in part by the...
