On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich

Team Dietrich May 15 Rounds took a while today. We have quite a few patients. Several had big dressings to change. Two of the wound vacs needed changing also. Our diabetic patient’s amputation stump incision looks good but unfortunately his blood sugar is very high. We had to get the doctor working in the ER …

On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich

May 11 Wed clinic went until after 7 pm. I saw 12 new peds patients with operative conditions and put them on Herzenberg’s schedule. I sent John 2 emails with pictures of patients and xrays. His response to the first email was “yikes.” To the second email was “double yikes.” The attached hand xray is …

On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich

May 5 The surgery schedule was overbooked today and not by choice. Dr Spendey gave us the go ahead to do the amputation on the man with the completely avascular, foul smelling foot. The elective cases included hardware removal, clubfoot surgery, wound vac changes/debridements, removal of a wrist mass and extensive quadricepsplasty. Ed and I …