by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 17, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings
Today is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. Suicide among physicians is a shockingly big problem. Suicide is usually the result of a long sequence of negative and self-defeating thoughts. It’s what happens after you lose “the battle in your mind.” I admit...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 29, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings
Wang and colleagues recently published an article in JAMA Dermatology about primary cutaneous cryptococcus. The article is not available open access, so we can’t look at the photos of the case. However, in 2012, Dr. Adelaide Hebert and I published a case report of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 28, 2024 | Miscellaneous Musings
This Medscape article caught my eye thanks to its attention grabbing title: ‘Blood Everywhere’: Nurses Control Intense In-Flight Crisis. It’s a well-written account of an in-flight emergency in which the writer, a nurse, saves the day. She describes the...
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 3, 2024 | Miscellaneous Musings
July 4th is my favorite holiday. I admit that a big reason is that I am a sucker for fireworks. However, the main reason that I love the 4th of July is that I love America. In an era that denigrates patriotism, at least on July 4th it is possible to revel in patriotic...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 14, 2024 | Miscellaneous Musings
I am willing to admit that I’m struggling with names. I was never very good at it, but it’s clearly worse. More and more often, I will begin to introduce someone who I’ve known for years and find the mental rolodex empty right after I say, “I’d like you to meet my...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 22, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings
The AMA has a very useful series called “What doctors wish patients knew about…“ The most recent one is about a condition called “misphonia.” This is a condition in which seemingly innocuous sounds can trigger an intense (and seemingly out of proportion)...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 8, 2024 | Miscellaneous Musings
Fred Hargesheimer visits with pupils of the Airmen’s Memorial School in Ewasse on Aug. 2, 2004, during a visit to the southwest Pacific island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. As a World War II U.S. Army pilot, he was shot down over the Japanese-occupied island...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 7, 2024 | Miscellaneous Musings
February 1st was “World Leprosy Day” and I confess, I did not have that on my calendar. I have actually seen a patient in the wound center with leprosy. It’s endemic in Texas and about 200 new cases are reported each year. I thought the way that the leprosy awareness...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 22, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings
It’s the holidays so most people can expect to watch the scales move up. A WebMD article about holiday weight gain suggests that the problem is not that people gain a lot of weight during the holiday season but that they gain a little every holiday season —...
