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Wound & trauma

Diabetic limb salvage

Both surgeons take on diabetic and traumatic wounds other offices have written off — and work to keep a leg attached to a life.

Clinician in gloves examining a lower leg with clean dressings in a wound-care clinic

Dr. David Heath spent 11 years in the Wound Healing Center at Memorial Pembroke. Dr. Liliana Heath spent 8. That is not a side clinic. It is a large part of how this practice thinks.

Venous ulcers, diabetic foot infections, Charcot, and post-traumatic wounds are treated with a limb-first bias. Amputation is a last conversation, not a first one.

He completed Ilizarov training in Kurgan, Russia, for external fixation — a tool that matters when bone, soft tissue, and infection have to be managed together.