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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 9, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I will be speaking at the TexMed Wound Care Conference on May 19, 2018. Be sure to join us for this important educational event! You can register by clicking on this link. Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving...
