The Cost of Healing- Medicine Isn’t Blind: How Coverage and Cash Shape Diabetic Wound Outcomes

In this episode Dr G examines how the healthcare system—not just clinical decisions—affects diabetic wound outcomes, highlighting how insurance rules, financial barriers, transportation and approval delays can lead to infection, osteomyelitis and even amputations. She shares real patient stories and examples of denied imaging and approvals that changed outcomes.

Her takeaways: prioritize early specialist (especially vascular) care and prevention, speak up about financial limits, use community resources, and push for system changes to expand preventive coverage and reduce approval delays so money doesn’t decide who heals.