LIMBWatch Series: Dawn Franceschina PT, DPT, CWS on Wound Healing Awareness Month and ABWM Foundation
Dr. G interviews Dr. Dawn Franceschina, a physical therapist and Vice Chair of the ABWM Foundation, about her 29-year career in wound care, advances in treatment, and the importance of Wound Healing A...
30 Jun 43min
Diabetes and Disability Series- Part 2- Will I Lose My Job? The Hidden Work Fears of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
This episode explores how diabetic foot ulcers affect not just health but work and identity. Dr. G explains common patient fears about income, insurance, and being seen as unreliable, and how employer...
29 Jun 15min
Diabetes and Disability Series- Part 1 : Do I Qualify & How Long Will I Be Out of Work
Dr. G dives into the complex reality of disability for people with diabetic foot ulcers — explaining why a diagnosis alone doesn’t determine disability, how occupation, ulcer characteristics, infectio...
28 Jun 24min
Rewind the Journey: The Preventability Index in Diabetic Limb Salvage
Dr. G explores the "Preventability Index," a framework for replaying a patients timeline to identify missed opportunities that could have prevented a diabetic foot ulcer or amputation. He explains the...
27 Jun 19min
Forgotten Infection Friday — Nocardia: The Weakly Acid‑Fast Impostor
A 62-year-old man with poorly controlled diabetes presented with weeks of cough, weight loss, night sweats, and cavitary lung lesions initially suspected to be tuberculosis or malignancy. Sputum TB te...
26 Jun 24min
The Hair Test One of the Simplest Clues in Limb Salvage
Imagine a patient with no complaints whose foot hair has vanished. This episode explains the "hair test"—how absent hair on the toes and feet can be an early bedside clue to poor circulation, peripher...
25 Jun 18min
Nystatin Uncovered: Why It Heals Some Foot Fungi and Fails Others
This episode of Diabetic Foot Files dives into nystatin: its history, how it kills Candida, and why it often works for moist, macerated toe-web infections but fails against dermatophyte-caused athlete...
24 Jun 20min
Zaynich: A New Weapon Against MDR Gram-Negatives
In this episode of Diabetic Foot Files, Dr. G explores Zaynich (cefepime + ZD-bactam), a newly FDA-approved IV antibiotic designed to overcome multi-drug resistant gram-negative infections. He explain...
23 Jun 17min
