The Cost of Healing- Medicine Isn’t Blind: How Coverage and Cash Shape Diabetic Wound Outcomes

In this episode Dr G examines how the healthcare system—not just clinical decisions—affects diabetic wound outcomes, highlighting how insurance rules, financial barriers, transportation and approval delays can lead to infection, osteomyelitis and even amputations. She shares real patient stories and examples of denied imaging and approvals that changed outcomes.

Her takeaways: prioritize early specialist (especially vascular) care and prevention, speak up about financial limits, use community resources, and push for system changes to expand preventive coverage and reduce approval delays so money doesn’t decide who heals.

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Royal Wounds: Queen Victoria’s Case and the Calf Pump

This episode uses Queen Victoria as a clinical mirror to explain how immobility leads to venous hypertension, edema, skin breakdown, and chronic venous leg ulcers. It covers the classic triad—venous h...

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Royal Wounds: King George III, Stress Biology, and Diabetic Foot Healing

This episode examines King George III's documented episodes of severe mental illness and modern re-evaluation (bipolar disorder vs porphyria), then connects the biology of stress—HPA axis, cortisol, a...

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Royal Wounds: How Louis XIV's Anal Fistula Changed Surgery

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Royal Wounds Episode 2: Napoleon, Boots and the Truth About Pressure Ulcers

Dr. G explores how unrelieved pressure — not just diabetes or infection — can destroy tissue, using Napoleon Bonaparte’s chronic foot pain, stiff military boots, and relentless marching as a historica...

30 Joulu 202516min