by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 20, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Shin Radiation Madness
Please, if you are a patient with a bad skin cancer on the shin and have been recommended to have radiation instead of surgery, get a second opinion. The shin is very unforgiving when it comes to radiation. I posted a blog about this in 2017, but the cases keep coming...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 17, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema
I gave a talk on Massive Localized Lymphedema for the Lymphapress educational series. It’s available on their Youtube channel and it’s FREE! Thank you Lymphapress for asking me to contribute to this fantastic resource for both patients and clinicians. Caroline Fife,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
This interview with one of my patients was filmed one day before my hospital closed to visitors at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The story is so incredible I wanted the patient to tell it herself so I was thrilled when, a few days ago, the Microgen team sent me...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 16, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings
You have to watch this! Dr. Monique Abner is a Plastic Surgeon and Wound Care Physician and she’s also one of the most creative and FUN people I know. A few years ago (in the good old days when we got to physically see each other at medical meetings), a group of us...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 11, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
My Father’s 2 year old baby brother died of tetanus in about 1929 after a minor cut to his foot. I’ve read about tetanus but thanks to modern vaccines, I’ve never seen a case. (If you want to read a chilling description of a death from tetanus, read about the death of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 6, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings
I love practicing medicine because every day there is a mystery to ponder and I also hear great patient stories! The daughter of one of my patients is a remarkable woman whose amazing dog has been trained for search and rescue and as a “cadaver dog.” These are tough...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings
As a medical student, I remember being counseled by a very wise (and very brilliant) physician mentor about “therapeutic touch.” It might just be a pat on the arm – but he made a point to touch every patient he saw (naturally, in a socially appropriate way) even when...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 16, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
It happened again. L-arginine made me look foolish. I told the patient’s husband I didn’t think we could get this bone deep pressure injury to close without surgery. I kept doing office debridements, we used negative pressure wound therapy and an anti-biofilm agent....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 15, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
68-year-old with ulcers on the left medial ankle, which began after sclerotherapy with some sort of glue 10 weeks earlier. He has had multiple venous ablation procedures for recurrent venous leg ulcers over the past 15 years. I screened him for arterial disease with...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 14, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
A 78 year old woman presented with a left medial lower leg ulcer that had been present 12 weeks. She said she awoke one the morning with swelling of her left medial leg and some mild redness. She had no confirmed history of trauma. She was not on anticoagulants and...
