Please Grow for Me: The Photosynthesis of Diabetic Wound Healing
Dr. G examines how growth factors act as fertilizers, and how oxygen and light therapies function like sunlight and air to revive chronic diabetic foot ulcers. He explains key molecules (EGF, PDGF, VE...
30 Okt 202518min
Feed Me, Seymour: The Metabolic Appetite of Diabetic Wounds
Dr. G explores how wound healing is an active metabolic process — what wounds need (calories, protein, oxygen, vitamins and minerals), how hyperglycemia and malnutrition stall repair, and a case where...
30 Okt 202518min
Diabetic Foot Abscesses: When Pus Hides Beneath the Skin
This episode of Diabetic Foot Files explains how abscesses form in diabetic feet, why they can develop quickly and silently, and the importance of identifying fluctuance, pain, odor, and signs of deep...
27 Okt 202516min
The Vampire's Cure: Why Bleeding Can Mean Healing
In this Halloween edition of Diabetic Foot Files, Dr. G blends vampire lore with wound-care science to show how blood can signal healing—not horror. The episode covers the history linking myths to med...
24 Okt 202517min
Don't Stop Early: Why Finishing Antibiotics Saves Feet
Dr. Gabrielle Hutcheson -Donaldson explains why completing prescribed antibiotic courses is critical for diabetic foot infections: early symptom relief doesn’t mean the infection is gone, and stopping...
20 Okt 202512min
Speak Wound Fluently: Foundations of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Terminology
Dr. G returns to the foundation of diabetic limb salvage, explaining essential ulcer terminology—erosion, partial/full-thickness ulcers, tunneling, undermining, exudate types, wound bed tissue, biofil...
14 Okt 202520min
Tiny Ring, Big Risk: Porokeratosis on the Diabetic Foot
Dr. G explains porokeratosis — a ring-like skin disorder that can masquerade as a callus or wart and cause pain, ulceration, and even malignant change on diabetic feet. The episode covers what poroker...
10 Okt 202520min
Forgotten Feet: Diabetes Behind Bars/The Incarcerated
Dr. G (Woon Picasso) exposes the hidden crisis of diabetic foot disease in prisons: its prevalence, the resource and policy barriers that lead to missed checks and preventable amputations, and the mor...
10 Okt 202513min
