Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You And How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
by Marty Makary MD /
2012 / English / PDF
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Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist
outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto.
As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in
the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern
medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical
culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients,
amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of
sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates
nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress and efforts
to curb expenses. Why? To patients, the healthcare system is a
black box. Doctors and hospitals are unaccountable, and the lack
of transparency leaves both bad doctors and systemic flaws
unchecked. Patients need to know more of what healthcare workers
know, so they can make informed choices. Accountability in
healthcare would expose dangerous doctors, reward good
performance, and force positive change nationally, using the
power of the free market. Unaccountable is a powerful,
no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and
reforming our broken healthcare system.
Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist
outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto.
As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in
the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern
medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical
culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients,
amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of
sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates
nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress and efforts
to curb expenses. Why? To patients, the healthcare system is a
black box. Doctors and hospitals are unaccountable, and the lack
of transparency leaves both bad doctors and systemic flaws
unchecked. Patients need to know more of what healthcare workers
know, so they can make informed choices. Accountability in
healthcare would expose dangerous doctors, reward good
performance, and force positive change nationally, using the
power of the free market. Unaccountable is a powerful,
no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and
reforming our broken healthcare system.