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When I discuss Healing the Sick Care System: Why People Matter with audiences, I expect nods of recognition acknowledging the mess and the hopelessness...

The Hidden “Friction Tax”

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - August 14, 2026

Health innovation loves the language of efficiency: faster, smarter, automated, digital, self-service and AI-enabled. Those words open doors to opportunity because they promise to...

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Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - July 8, 2025

I was taken aback by the term used in the article published in JAMA Network Open: Medical gaslighting has been defined as, “…an act that...

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Jordan Forbes - January 18, 2023

When life gives us lemons, we make lemonade. What should we do when life gives us wisdom teeth accompanied by excruciating pain?

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