Approximately 87 percent of midlife women with menopause symptoms did not seek medical care for those symptoms. Among those who did, only 25 percent received treatment. This is not a niche problem. It is one of the clearest clinical opportunities in medicine right now.

Nearly 42 percent of U.S. physicians reported at least one burnout symptom in 2025. One in four is considering leaving clinical medicine entirely. The reasons are not mysterious — and the physicians leaving are not the ones who were unsuited for the work.

You took time off. You slept. You did what people say is supposed to help. And when you came back, nothing had changed. If rest did not fix it, the problem may not be burnout. It may be something the research has only recently found language for.

She left a panel of nearly 2,000 patients to build a practice on her own terms. Then a medical mission trip to the Philippines sharpened everything she already knew about why access to care — and the way she delivers it — matters.