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Gil Bashe
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Connecting the dots to uncover and cultivate cognitive connections that ignite life-saving transformations.

Chair Global Health and Purpose FINN Partners; Medika Life Editor-in-Chair and radio show Health Unabashed host.

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Service doesn’t end with a discharge; it evolves. Veterans turn pain into purpose, and mission into meaning. This Veterans Day, let’s honor that continued courage.

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#PTSD #VeteransDay #Leadership #Purpose
Turning PTSD into a Purposeful Superpower
Looking to Veterans Day, we honor those who transform trauma into purpose and continue to serve with impact.
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The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
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November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Reposted by Gil Bashe
Artificial intelligence is reshaping PR’s business model and client experience. The future will belong to communications agencies that can use these tools to create new ways of working as well as provide greater value for clients -- Alicia Young, FINN Partners odwpr.us/3K2GmUb
Technology: The Great Differentiator
Artificial intelligence is reshaping PR’s business model and client experience. The future will belong to communications agencies that can use these tools to create new ways of working as well as prov...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Service doesn’t end with a discharge; it evolves. Veterans turn pain into purpose, and mission into meaning. This Veterans Day, let’s honor that continued courage.

medium.com/purpose-and-...

#PTSD #VeteransDay #Leadership #Purpose
Turning PTSD into a Purposeful Superpower
Looking to Veterans Day, we honor those who transform trauma into purpose and continue to serve with impact.
medium.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
12 Hours in the Smoke - Wildfire fighters nationwide are getting sick and dying at young ages, The New York Times has reported. The federal government acknowledges that the job is linked to lung disease, heart damage and more than a dozen kinds of cancer.

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Inside the Poisonous Smoke Killing Wildfire Fighters at Young Ages
Across the country, wildfire fighters work for weeks at a time in poisonous smoke. The government says they are protected. We tested the air at one fire to find out why they are still dying.
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Honored to chair Day 1 of the HITLAB Innovators Summit 2025 in NYC!

Joining Sally Ann Frank of Microsoft for a fireside chat on advancing digital health + #patientexperience.

Proud to see FINN Partners voices in the mix. #HITLABSummit #HealthInnovation
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Gil Bashe
How purpose-driven communications strengthens reputation, rallies stakeholders and builds value during economically turbulent times -- Gil Bashe, FINN Partners odwpr.us/3WZUO1W
Purpose Isn't a Luxury—It's a Growth Engine
How purpose-driven communications strengthens reputation, rallies stakeholders and builds value during economically turbulent times.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
You can’t save your way to growth. Belief is the bridge between purpose and performance. During economic turbulence, purpose isn’t a message; it’s direction.

My op-ed in @odwyerpr.bsky.social:
October 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mastering the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference www.odwyerpr.com/story/public...
Mastering the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
A PR and IR playbook for navigating the world’s largest annual investor meeting for life sciences companies.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders
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October 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Flagship Pioneering is a hot name in health innovation because it does much more than invest in biotech; it conceives, incubates and launches companies (such as Moderna) that fundamentally reimagine how medicines are developed.

A hot CNS Summit conversation!
October 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Burial is both sacred and psychological; it gives shape to grief and allows healing to begin. Across Judaism, Islam, and all faiths, returning the dead is an act of compassion that restores humanity.

Read on BeingWell:
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#Healing #SharedHumanity #MentalHealth
Returning the Dead: Healing the Living
When There Is No Burial, There Is No Closure
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October 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
From horror comes clarity. Today is a deeply emotional moment for the people of the Middle East, a day of heartbreak, of hard-won clarity, and of hope.

May we move beyond blame toward empathy, courage, and a future where hope prevails over hate.

#Peace #Humanity #Hope
October 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Coalition for Health AI faces escalating attacks by Trump officials, loss of founding member Amazon www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/c... via @statnews.com
Coalition for Health AI faces escalating attacks by Trump officials, loss of founding member Amazon
The Trump administration is escalating its efforts to weaken a tech industry-funded group seeking to help shape the nation’s use of AI in health care.
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October 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A new study has shown that microplastics can alter gut microbiome, where those changes resemble patterns associated with depression and colorectal cancer.

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Microplastics are changing your insides in unexpected ways
The study found microplastics can alter gut microbiome, with changes resembling patterns associated with depression.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rite Aid, Once One of America’s Biggest Pharmacy Chains, Closes Its Last Stores www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Rite Aid, Once One of America’s Biggest Pharmacy Chains, Closes Its Last Stores
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October 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
“Ukraine: Worn Hearts, Steeled Resolve.”

After 20 visits to Ukraine, I’ve seen the courage of its people again and again, and this latest trip revealed something deeper: how resilience coexists with a quiet psychological toll.

READ via Medika Life:

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Ukraine: Worn Hearts, Steeled Resolve - Medika Life
Once again, Medika Life Editor Gil Bashe returns to War-Time Ukraine and shares his Reflections on the toll of war on people's resilience and mental health.
medika.life
September 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The Borrowed Mind | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
The Borrowed Mind
In its way, a borrowed mind is more tragic than death.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Science is catching up to disease, and communication needs to catch up to science. We bend molecules to fit people's health urgencies. Can we speak with people in ways that address their emotional and physical urgencies?

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We Perfected Precision Medicine. It’s Time for Precision Communication
Science has caught up to disease. Communication needs to catch up to science.
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September 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A new analysis of fee-for-service Medicare claims shows a sharper rise in primary care physicians leaving the federal health program than in specialists, raising concerns about older adults’ access to care.

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Primary Care Physicians Increasingly Leave US Medicare
An estimated 4.4% of primary care physicians left Medicare in 2023 — a higher exit rate than specialists — according to a new analysis, raising concerns about physician payment and access to care.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures - How will this enable doctors to have more time to focus on patient care?

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
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August 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
25 months ago, I asked: “If the deaths of small children don’t move us to act, what will?” After Minneapolis—2 kids dead, 17 injured—gun violence is the #1 killer of US children. This is a public health crisis. Not politics. Prevention. Responsibility. Action.

READ HERE: medika.life/if-our-child...
If Our Children’s Fear Doesn’t Move Us to Act, What Will? - Medika Life
Firearms are now the leading cause of death for American children and adolescents. More than 4,300 young lives are lost each year. How do we respond?
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August 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
25 months ago, I wrote: “If deaths of small children don’t move us to act, what will?” Another school shooting. Another community shattered.

I urge Congress to see what 1st responders see & pass laws to keep weapons out of irresponsible hands.

Read it. Share it.

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If Deaths of Small Children Do Not Move Us to Action What Will? - Medika Life
Until there is life-sparing action, Congressional members and staff must be required – regardless of party affiliation– to see the destructive path of an AR-15 caliber bullet after each mass shooting.
medika.life
August 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A strategic and savvy energy policy should not involve using less energy. Instead, our policy should aim to make clean energy so abundant that we can use it without harming the environment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised Me
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August 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...
Opinion | Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming.
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM