“The Soaking Myth/ Urban Legend “ No Soaking: Why Warm Water Can Ruin Diabetic & Ischemic Foot Wounds
In this episode Dr. G, a podiatrist and limb-salvage advocate, debunks the common practice of soaking diabetic and ischemic foot wounds. She explains how warm water and salts cause maceration, strip t...
24 Tammi 26min
Comfort Over Closure: Managing Wounds at End of Life
Dr. G explains how wound care changes in hospice: the focus shifts from closure and aggressive treatments to comfort, pain relief, odor and exudate control, and preserving patient dignity. The episode...
23 Tammi 13min
It’s Not A Miracle, It’s A Marathon- Limb Salvage Revolution: Consistency Over Miracles
This episode reframes limb salvage as a marathon, not a miracle—arguing that persistent, team-based care prevents many unnecessary amputations and protects patients' lives, function, and dignity. Dr. ...
22 Tammi 23min
Pink but Perilous: Why Color Doesn’t Mean Healing
In this episode, a clinician explains why a pink wound isn’t always healing and why exposed tendon makes a wound high-risk and potentially limb-threatening. Takeaways: wound size and depth predict out...
22 Tammi 13min
Stop Leaving the Pinky Toe: Why Incomplete TMA Amputations Fail
Dr. G explains why leaving the fifth digit after other forefoot amputations creates biomechanical imbalance, increased lateral pressure, and recurrent ulcers. He reviews the muscle and tendon changes ...
20 Tammi 24min
Questions That MUST Be Asked Before the Cut: 12 Questions to Ask Before Any Amputation
This episode explains why limb salvage is a philosophy, not just a procedure, and gives the essential questions patients and clinicians must ask before consenting to a lower-extremity or digital amput...
19 Tammi 22min
Size Matters- Size Is King: How Accurate Wound Measurement Saves Limbs
This episode explains why precise wound sizing—length, width, depth, surface area, volume, undermining and tunneling—is the most important metric in wound care. Dr. G covers practical measurement tech...
18 Tammi 28min
Auto Amputation and Demarcation- When the Body Cuts You Off: Understanding Auto-Amputation
In this episode Dr. G explains auto-amputation — when severely ischemic tissue becomes irreversibly necrotic, the immune system walls it off (demarcation), and the dead segment desiccates and may spon...
18 Tammi 22min
