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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 23, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Seventy years ago, Life magazine published a photograph essay depicting two weeks in the life of Dr. Ernest Ceriani, a general practitioner in Colorado. The images of his 1948 rural practice are riveting. He delivers babies, performs trauma surgery, practices...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 18, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Last night the students at the George Bush school of government held a candlelight vigil in honor of late First Lady, Barbara Bush. http://bush.tamu.edu/ The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University was founded in 1997, under...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 12, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
Re-posted with permission from Today’s Wound Clinic. Have you ever heard of a surgeon offering a warranty on a procedure? I can hardly get a warranty on a home appliance repair. A warranty is not the legal term for what Geisinger offers patients after a hip...
