Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM

Getting Started: The Tools You Need to Take Your Hospital-based Wound Clinic from Concept to Care

Chicago, IL — Ernest A. Codman, MD, FACS, became a surgeon at the turn of the 20th century and spent his life on a crusade to reform surgical practice and medical care. A graduate of Harvard Medical School (class of 1895), he would go on to...

Chicago, IL — Ernest A. Codman,...

06/05/2018

Today's Wound Clinic

05/24/2007

What Facilities and Practitioners Need to Know in 2021

Dot Weir , RN, CWON, CWS;

Since the ancient Greeks first put honey in wounds, our comprehension of wound management has been a slow but steady journey. An understanding of the germ theory led to sterile, dry dressings and frequent antibiotic scrubs.

Since the ancient Greeks first...

05/24/2007

Today's Wound Clinic

Feature

01/05/2021

Healthcare Social Media: An Interview with Kevin Pho, MD

As a new year begins, several experts provide their insights into the biggest challenges facing the wound clinic, how clinics have adapted since COVID-19, and what gives them optimism in 2021. Q: What are the biggest challenges going...

As a new year begins, several...

01/05/2021

Today's Wound Clinic

03/08/2012

The Need for Real Venous Ulcer Data

When we decided to focus on social technology and healthcare for this issue of TWC, I began to research which physicians were doing the best job harnessing these tools at the national level. That is how I came across a blog by Dr. Kevin...

When we decided to focus on...

03/08/2012

Today's Wound Clinic

Letter from the Editor

02/02/2018

Wound Care is the Data Underdog

On July 20, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) convened a Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) meeting to discuss recommendations regarding treatment strategies for patients living with...

On July 20, 2016, the Centers...

02/02/2018

Today's Wound Clinic

Letter from the Editor

08/08/2017

Health Care’s Mental Health Crisis: Winning the Battle in the Mind

I am re-reading the book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell because, as an underdog, the field of wound care must develop a strategy to survive healthcare reform. We do not have the...

I am re-reading the book David...

08/08/2017

Today's Wound Clinic

From the Editor

09/24/2021

All Multidisciplinary Teams, All the Time: Treat the Patient and Not the Wound

We can’t control circumstances, but we can control how we react to them. The battle we have to win is the one in our mind.

We can’t control circumstances,...

09/24/2021

Today's Wound Clinic

Original Contribution

05/19/2022

Courage and Fortitude in the Time of COVID-19

David Kuten , MD;

Efthymios Gkotsoulias , DPM;

This kind of efficient care requires team members to be identified beforehand, to know each other’s skill set, to be committed to same-day responsiveness in communication, to have some flexibility in patient scheduling, and to understand when...

This kind of efficient care...

05/19/2022

Cath Lab Digest

04/03/2020

Last month, on March 8, I went to visit my 94-year-old Mother. She is an extreme statistical outlier because she requires no medications, lives alone in her own home, and drives round trip to Houston once a week (180 miles). That weekend, we...

Last month, on March 8, I went...

04/03/2020

Wound Care

Letter from the Editor

From the Editor

12/15/2015