by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 13, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care, US Wound Registry
We just published an article about the impact of underlying conditions on Quality-of-Life (QOL) measurement among patients with chronic wounds which sheds new light on the use of QOL assessment as well as the underlying medical complexity of these patients. On the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 22, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings, Obesity & Wound Care
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 —...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 19, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
One benefit of getting older is that you feel less like you have to hide things about yourself. While I’ve never discussed it openly, I’ve also never made a secret of the fact that I had bariatric surgery nearly 20 years ago. I had been putting on weight slowly since...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 11, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
I’ve struggled with my weight all my life. I don’t need an alarm clock because my stomach will wake me up for breakfast. It infuriates me when skinny friends tell me that they “forgot to eat.” I have always suspected that anyone who forgets to eat has some kind of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 17, 2022 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
Some months ago I gave a Webinar on massive localized lymphedema (MLL). Recently a young man reached out to me with a heart-wrenching email about his wonderful Mom. She’s got MLL and has had multiple bouts of cellulitis. She’s now homebound and giving up hope. He...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 9, 2022 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
A few months ago, a woman brought her father in to see me for his leg edema. She had intervened when his health and his mental function deteriorated dramatically. When I walked in the door, I could tell he had sleep apnea. He was falling asleep as I talked to him, his...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 17, 2022 | Fight the Good Fight, Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema, Obesity & Wound Care
This just out in the journal Obesity — an article I co-authored on Lymphatic Function and Anatomy in Early Stages of Lipedema (John C. Rasmussen, Melissa B. Aldrich, Caroline E. Fife, Karen L. Herbst, Eva M. Sevick-Muraca; 15 June 2022). Lipedema is a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care, Shin Radiation Madness
For years I have been talking about the complications of shin radiation in elderly patients. The patients all underwent radiation for skin cancer having been told that since they were old and had “circulation issues”, radiation was a better option than undergoing a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 18, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care, Shin Radiation Madness
For years I have been talking about the complications of shin radiation in elderly patients. The patients all underwent radiation for skin cancer having been told that since they were old and had “circulation issues”, radiation was a better option than undergoing a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 4, 2021 | COVID-19, Obesity & Wound Care
My clinic is starting this morning. That means I have to get my temperature taken, don my protective equipment and attempt to deliver care to patients whose expressions I can’t see and who can’t understand what I am saying through a mask. I also need extra time to...
