Forty years of the Malvern Diabetic Foot Meeting. Thirty years of mine. One last bow from Andrew Boulton in the chair. A look back at the long arc โ from a Benedictine priory in 1085 to Joslin in 1928 to DFCon in 2000 to ALPS in 2020 โ and a look forward to DFCon 26, DFUpdate, traveling fellowships, and the next generation already climbing the hill.
On the Whole Etymology of the Hole in Skin: Wound, Ulcer & a Dinner in Bremen with Sicco Bus #DiabeticFoot #Etymology #LimbPreservation
Over dinner at EWMA-DEWU in Bremen with longtime collaborator and renowned biomechanist Prof. Sicco Bus, talk drifted from classification to language โ and to why English insists on two words for the same hole in the body. A slow look at what wound vs. ulcer is silently encoding every time we write it down.
The Lennon and McCartney of the Diabetic Foot, Remastered: Rescuing a Hilarious 2008 @ABoultonMD Toast for #Malvern40 #ActAgainstAmputation #DFCon #LimbPreservation @ALPSLimb
Eighteen years ago, Larry Lavery and I stood up at the Malvern Diabetic Foot Meeting dinner and performed four Beatles rewrites in honor of Andrew Boulton. It brought the house down. As Malvern turns 40, here are the videos โ writers' room, performance, applause, and Abbey walls โ rescued, remastered, and archived for the record.
Journal of the American Medical Association: Diabetic Foot Ulcers @JAMA_Current #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot
From JAMA Armstrong, Tan, Boulton, and Bus, JAMA.ย 2023;330(1):62-75. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.10578 In diabetic foot disease, tissue loss,ischemia, and infection frequentlyoverlap. However, one is frequentlymore dominant than the other atdifferent times in the life cycle of anacute-on-chronic event. Here, theamount of tissue loss, ischemia, andfoot infection can be ordinally gradedto help predict outcome and assist incommunicating a plan... Continue Reading →