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What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Bloomsbury Press
September 2012
On Sale: September 18, 2012
256 pages ISBN: 1608198367 EAN: 9781608198368 Kindle: B008RYD43G Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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.
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