Medika Life

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.





Hospitals and Digital Health Can Save People and the Planet

By Gil Bashe – If the healthcare sector were a country, it would be the world’s fifth-largest contributor to greenhouse gases following China, the US, India, and Russia. The planet’s health and our own are joined, and the health community must unite with environmental affairs experts to collaborate on what must be done to keep the planet vibrant.