by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 8, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
The proof is in the tan line… Yes. He got sunburned everywhere else! 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 at CarolineFifeMD.com and my...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 7, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
Check out another “Can We Talk” letter to the editor regarding the request that Joy Schank and I have made that NPUAP members disclose their work as expert witnesses, and that the NPUAP develop a policy pertaining to expert testimony. I think expert...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 6, 2018 | Don't Miss This, Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
These excruciatingly painful, necrotic leg lesions began about the same time on both legs when the patient began oral prednisone as part of chemotherapy for a myeloproliferative disorder. They have increased in size rapidly over two weeks. She had been on peritoneal...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 30, 2018 | Don't Miss This, Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
It’s good to be reminded that wounds are a symptom of a disease or diseases. The things we see from day to day are amazing. Here’s a quiz about fingernails. This little lady weighs less than 100 lbs. and is nearly as many years old. She worked as a welder...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 25, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
My Dad was a veteran of WWII and Korea and my husband is a veteran. On Memorial Day I find myself wanting to go somewhere to pay tribute our service men and women. My Mother, my son and I usually go to The Brazos Valley Veteran’s Memorial in College Station. It is one...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 23, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing
On Saturday May 19th I joined Drs. Jay Shah, Noel Oliveira and Rafael Rafols at the Texas Medical Association (TMA) meeting in San Antonio, Texas for the first ever wound care CME event at a TMA meeting. We focused on wound care for the primary care physician, and it...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 11, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
Ernest Codman, an 1895 Harvard Medical School graduate, became a surgeon at the turn of the 20th century. He spent his life on a crusade to reform surgical practice and medical care, formulating what he called the “end result system” in which he...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 8, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
My Dad’s definition of mixed emotions was watching your mother in law drive off a cliff in your new car. (Truth be told, his mother in law adored him and vice versa.) There’s a lot of back and forth about the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), and it’s hard...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 2, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Last week my iPhone spontaneously created one of those “bursts” – you know what I am talking about – “This time last year,” which would have been so sweet, except it was a series of saturated dressings ranging in color from green to brown that looked like...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 25, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema, Quality Payment Program
It’s interesting that patients are often less worried about their ulcerations than they are their edema, and in some ways it’s harder to treat. I am tormented by what we don’t understand about leg edema that we currently have the power to know. The US Wound Registry...
