Brian Lepow, our current SALSA fellow, seems to be feeling the heat in clinic and on the wards, as he just weighed in with this SALSAism: Toeverflow: The resultant swelling and inundation of podiatric patients on a Toe/Flow service secondary to referral from local, frequently rural emergency departments. For a complete list of SALSAisms, click... Continue Reading →

Following our grand rounds today, this excellent entry came from Pediatric Surgeon Jonathan Greenfield:ToeFU: Much like SNAFU, but for a foot. For a complete list of SALSAisms, click here.

This superb entry from John Connolly:The Limb Reaper: A disparaging definition of diabetes and its end stage complications.For a complete list of SALSAisms, click here.

ArisTOEcratic: of, or belonging to, a family or lineage of clinicians taking care of feet (see TOEbless Olbige)For the complete (running) list of SALSAisms, click here.

This entry comes from first-timer Zachary Gangwer, President of the American Podiatric Medical Association and SALSA veteran: Well Heeled: Successful epithelialization after a partial calcanectomy. For the complete (running) list of SALSAisms, click here.

As our current third year resident, Albert Amini and two of our fellows Brian Lepow and Matt White struggle with writing discharge/home health orders on one of our patients, we have come up with a new term for our "ChemoVAC" infusion therapy:WD40 = Wound Dialysis at 40ml/hr. For the complete (running) list of SALSAisms, click... Continue Reading →

This one just popped into our collective head today:STENTorian: a particularly vocal endovascular enthusiast.For the complete (running) list of SALSAisms, click here.

One of our three stellar vascular technologists, Amalia Castrillo, was immortalized today with a SALSAism entry named just for her:Hot ToeMolly: an emergency SALSA vascular lab consultation.For the complete (running) list of SALSAisms, click here.

This SALSAism entry's provenance can be traced directly to the toe of one of our department's beloved trauma surgeons, the effervescent Terence O'Keeffe:PhoToegenic: a particularly aesthetically pleasing foot photograph.For the complete (running) list of SALSAisms, click here.

In honor of our new SALSA fellow, Dr. Mills whilst on a FaceTime surgery chat with me to Dr. Rogers in Los Angeles, claimed the first Dr. Lepow-based SALSAism:LepowSuction: Drainage of infection by the eponymous SALSA fellowFor the complete (running) list of SALSAisms, click here.