by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 6, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
A few weeks ago, I got a message from a Cellular Tissue Products / skin substitute sales rep telling me about the great results seen using his product in Wagner grade 3 DFUs, specifically over bone and tendon. I wondered how he could make those claims given that, as...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 2, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quiz / Survey
I get lots of interesting emails about what’s going on in the world of high-priced amniotic sales. I can’t post a lot of it – sometimes because there’s an open investigation and sometimes because I have no way to validate what I’ve been told. For example,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 1, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight, Quiz / Survey
Thanks to everyone who voted! As almost 60% of you correctly guessed, the correct answer is C) Paying for a criminal defense attorney if the practitioner is prosecuted for Medicare fraud Stay tuned tomorrow for another “just for fun” poll related to...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 26, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quiz / Survey
Create your own user feedback survey 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 Youtube channel...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 23, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
I read this fascinating and inspiring interview in JAMA written by a neurologist whose Alzheimer’s was diagnosed 8 years ago. Although he is now retired from practice, Dr. Daniel Gibbs continues to teach about Alzheimer disease through his writing and speaking...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 22, 2024 | Dr. Helen Gelly, Fight the Good Fight
Physicians have watched their inflation-adjusted Medicare payments decline 26% from 2001 to 2023, because practitioners are just about the only entity whose reimbursement is NOT tied to inflation. Physicians in all specialties agree that the current Medicare physician...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 18, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings, Nutrition & Wound Healing
A 5:2 Intermittent Fasting Meal Replacement Diet and Glycemic Control for Adults With Diabetes: The EARLY Randomized Clinical Trial | Diabetes and Endocrinology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network A study published open access in JAMA suggests that an intermittent...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 5, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
Politico released an article about the billion dollar scam of “skin substitutes.” It’s behind a pay wall, so I will summarize the key points. (I will use the term “skin substitutes” since that’s how they are referred to in the Politico article.) Since I started...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 26, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
How much do you think that price impacts the way that CTPs (skin subs) are selected in the office setting? One reader sent me this thought – which is testable statistically (although I do not have access to the data to do it): “Dr. Fife, I could be wrong, but I think...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 20, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
Here I am at dinner with the illustrious Hyperbaric Medicine and wound care team from the Philippines at the UHMS meeting in New Orleans! This small group of physician leaders is revolutionizing care for an entire country. These are the kind of people who start new...
