Bones Always Tell the Truth: Mastering Bone Scans for Diabetic Feet
This episode explains bone scans as functional, nuclear medicine tests that reveal bone metabolism—blood flow, inflammation, infection, and repair—often before structural imaging shows changes. Learn ...
8 Jan 15min
Skin Substitutes Part II : Skin substitutes trademark names , Every Indication, Every Mistake (Part 2)
In this episode we break down skin substitutes for diabetic foot ulcers: how they work biologically, why they are not interchangeable, and common errors clinicians make. We review major categories and...
8 Jan 15min
Skin Substitutes Part I- Rebooting Wound Biology for Healing
This episode explains that diabetic foot ulcers are driven by "biological paralysis" rather than just skin loss, describing the four phases of wound healing and why wounds get stuck in chronic inflamm...
8 Jan 12min
Royal Wounds: When Treatment Kills — The King Charles II Lesson
In this episode of Diabetic Fudge Files' Royal Wounds series, Dr. G examines the final illness of King Charles II to show how aggressive, theory-driven treatments like bloodletting, purging, and blist...
5 Jan 15min
Royal Wounds: Royal Bleed: Alexei Romanov, Hemophilia, and an Empire in Peril
In this episode of Diabetic Foot Files — Royal Wound Series, we examine Alexei Romanov's hemophilia B, tracing how an X‑linked clotting deficiency shaped his life and destabilized a dynasty. We explai...
5 Jan 19min
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...
4 Jan 14min
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...
4 Jan 20min
Royal Wounds: How Louis XIV's Anal Fistula Changed Surgery
This episode explores King Louis XIV's chronic infections, his catastrophic anal abscess and fistula, and the brutal pre-anesthesia surgery that ultimately saved him and advanced surgical practice acr...
30 Dec 202518min
