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
Wheelchair Wounds: How Sitting Can Cause Diabetic Foot Ulcers
This episode explores why wheelchair-bound diabetic patients are at high risk for foot ulcers despite not walking. It explains how static pressure, neuropathy, contractures, and poor positioning conce...
17 Tammi 27min
Talking Dirty With Me - Wound Care Edition- The Clinically Candid Wound-Care Language That Saves Limbs
Dr. G breaks down essential wound-care terminology and explains why precise medical language matters for diagnosis, treatment, and communication with colleagues. The episode covers types of cell death...
17 Tammi 33min
The Black Toe Manifesto -Black Toe, Big Stakes: How to Save Limbs — Ischemia vs Embolism vs Cholesterol Emboli
This episode explains why a "black toe" is usually a sign of systemic vascular failure and breaks down the three main causes—chronic digital ischemia, acute arterial embolism, and blue-toe (cholestero...
15 Tammi 30min
Diabetic Foot Care in Pregnancy: Treating Two Lives at Once
Dr. G explains how pregnancy alters diabetic foot care and why you must treat maternal and fetal risks together. This episode covers stricter glucose targets in pregnancy, safest imaging (ultrasound, ...
15 Tammi 24min
Wound Farm: When Healthcare Rewrites the Rules
This episode uses George Orwell's Animal Farm as an allegory to examine how healthcare systems can prioritize profit, rules, and convenience over equitable wound care. Dr. G explains how delays, denia...
15 Tammi 22min
