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

From the Editor

10/21/2013

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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