05/12/2026
“..most doctors don’t get any education at all about hormone therapy and menopause. Less than 6% of family medicine, primary care, and gynecologists feel confident at all with menopause medicine.”
—- annnnd gynecologists? Yikes!
—- and yet, menopause specialists are not easy to find in the medical system.
—- There are lots of us in TCM and acupuncture, partly because TCM has always acknowledged aging across genders, just as other parts of the life cycle.
— Another reason is that at least in the US, people in our field have always been a safe landing for patients who aren’t seen, heard, supported** (enough) in conventional medicine.
** I’m criticizing the medical system here, not individual providers who are doing great work in spite shrugging patient contact hours with increasing patient loads
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/real-danger-women-isnt-hormone-therapy-its-bad-science-2026a1000e28
https://time.com/7371653/americas-health-care-workforce-crisis/
Are all hormones created equal? Drs Rachel Rubin and Kelly Casperson unpack the missing details in recent menopause research and explain why nuance matters.