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Why Healing Still Begins with Relationship

By Gil Bashe – When I discuss Healing the Sick Care System: Why People Matter with audiences, I expect nods of recognition acknowledging the mess and the hopelessness so many experience within today’s health system. I anticipate questions about what to do next and how to navigate a system that often feels stacked against both patients and professionals.



If Our Children’s Fear Doesn’t Move Us to Act, What Will?

By Gil Bashe – Twenty-five months ago, I wrote for Medika Life after yet another school shooting shook the nation. My plea then was simple but searing: let lawmakers witness what first responders see when they enter a classroom turned crime scene—the chaos, the quiet after the sirens, the grief of parents confronting the unimaginable.


The U.S. Health Paradox

By Gil Bashe – This is not a crisis of scarcity. It is a crisis of priorities. The U.S. health system does not consistently organize its clinical, financial, or policy decisions around the shared goal of improving people’s health: their physical and mental well-being.