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. -- Publisher Marketing
