by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 25, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, The Patient's Voice
Wound care is so gratifying. I love watching things get better. This is a wonderful patient who required 6 months to heal after surgery for osteomyelitis. He got his orthotics and I thought we were home free, but his fig trees bloomed and he spent an afternoon picking...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 22, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I am really struggling with lymphedema and skin breakdown on the foot of a wonderful patient. He has an above knee amputation on the other side, and is actually able to walk on an AKA prosthesis which is rare in my experience. The fact that this is his ONLY foot makes...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 8, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Quality Payment Program
What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. Sometimes nutrition is the medicine. This is a wonderful patient over 90 years old who is still driving and mentally alert. He sustained...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 7, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Quality Payment Program
What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. It’s so easy to overlook nutritional issues. Recently I saw a fairly young woman who suffered from juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 5, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Quality Payment Program
What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. It is amazing how prevalent nutritional deficits are among patients with non-healing wounds. In late March I saw a woman with severe ulcers...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 1, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
When the sun broke through for the first time on this Tuesday at about 6 PM, I went outside to take a picture of the sky. The sun looked so beautiful. That day pictures of the sun were everywhere on social media. Most days in August, Texans long for a break from the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 30, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
The rain has stopped, and we can see blue sky. The sun just came out. What a beautiful sight! Home, office and hospital made it through, but we are not celebrating with so much heartbreak everywhere. Unfortunately, there are new areas of flooding, new street closures,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 29, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Update from Texas: 8/29/17 It is still raining. Estimates for this area are about 25 inches since Friday but the more important figure is the geographic territory over which the rain has fallen. In 2001 with Allison, the Medical center got over 30 inches in 24 hours,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 28, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
As reported on the news, the southern region of Texas is experiencing perhaps the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history. Houston has been inundated with water. Water now covers an area roughly the size of Lake Michigan, some of it ten feet deep. By...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 24, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing
What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. Nutrition support and correction of nutritional deficiencies is critical to wound healing. Arginine, a conditionally essential amino acid,...
