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

From the Editor

10/21/2013

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

The hospital’s infection control committee (ICC) had determined that our wound center served as a “ground zero” for an outbreak of a relatively new problem — methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). It was the mid-1990s and the...

The hospital’s infection...

10/21/2013

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From the Editor

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

08/13/2013

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

I would give a lot to have a picture of the first “portable” negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device used by one of my patients. It was 1977, and a resourceful woman who had experienced an abdominal wound had used bungee cord to...

I would give a lot to have a...

08/13/2013

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In Memoriam: Remembering Robert A. Warriner III, MD: A Tribute to a True Leader

09/11/2012

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

Robert A. Warriner III, MD, died Aug. 2, at the age of 62 after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma six years ago. During the final days of his illness, I visited Bob in the intensive care unit at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX....

Robert A. Warriner III, MD,...

09/11/2012

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