by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 25, 2022 | Fight the Good Fight
Dr. David Charash is a longtime friend and colleague in the field of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He’s passionate about Diving Medicine and is producing a series of podcasts on Fitness In Diving. It’s the first ever podcast on the topic and will feature...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 5, 2022 | Fight the Good Fight
I wonder how much money hospitals have spent on misguided ideas to raise staff morale during COVID. We now have mood cards in the clinic break room. What am I supposed to do with them? Should I clip one to my coat today? The Red one says I am “ill,” but the list of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 21, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out this article by Vicki Stearn in Today’s Wound Clinic about Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs). I met Vicki Stearn professionally through our mutual involvement in the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders and in a chance conversation, she mentioned...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 20, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
At the recent fall SAWC meeting, Brian McCurdy, the Managing Editor for Today’s Wound Clinic and I as Clinical Editor, did a video interview about the trends we see in the wound care industry and how we develop relevant content. Here’s the video! TWC 2022 from HMP on...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 7, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
My most recent editorial in Today’s Wound Clinic is a tirade about what appears to me to be a lack of common sense and basic medical knowledge on the part of physicians. It’s not due to Covid but the pandemic has made all our weaknesses more obvious. A few nights ago...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
My beautiful 96 year old mother is cooking Thanksgiving dinner for our small family, and even drove herself to the grocery store to do the shopping. Although she is likely to be around another decade, she’s given us all very specific instructions on how to refer to...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Shin Radiation Madness
For years I have been talking about the complications of shin radiation in elderly patients. The patients all underwent radiation for skin cancer having been told that since they were old and had “circulation issues”, radiation was a better option than undergoing a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 18, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Shin Radiation Madness
For years I have been talking about the complications of shin radiation in elderly patients. The patients all underwent radiation for skin cancer having been told that since they were old and had “circulation issues”, radiation was a better option than undergoing a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 21, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
In this blog preview of my upcoming WoundCon Fall 2021 presentation, I propose the angiosome concept as a mechanism for “inside-out” pressure injury development. — Caroline Most clinicians know that some pressure injuries happen from the inside out because...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 29, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
This is the left foot of a 34-year-old African American woman who spent 21 days in the intensive care unit, hypotensive from sepsis and on vasopressors with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC). She lost all the toes on her right foot from ischemic necrosis....