Medicine Blog Posts

Regardless of your specialty, you’ll face moments like this—moments when you must act outside your comfort zone. These moments don’t just challenge your clinical skills; they challenge your self-concept.

When we normalize working at 75%, we model a sustainable profession for the next generation. We create accurate data about what is truly possible. We invite creativity into spaces long held hostage by exhaustion.

We take an oath to first, do no harm. But the harsh truth is: we will all harm patients. It’s not a matter of if, but when.

In this powerful and heartfelt keynote, Dr. Lauren Umstattd addresses the graduating class of 2025 at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.

Unless significant changes are made, this bill will do nothing short of devastate our already fragile healthcare system. If you work in the healthcare industry like me and, also like me, are busy with the day to day work of patient care and don't have time to read legalese for hours, I will offer you a brief summary.

Reflecting on motherhood, burnout, and how empathy - not capes - is the true superpower in medicine.