Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
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New York Times Bestseller
“Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that’s seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book.”-Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated
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.
A loud-and-clear call for action from a leading surgeon to make American healthcare more transparent, more democratic and better for patients
THE MAN BEHIND THE CHECKLIST: Dr. Makary’s practical, dramatically effective approach to medical safety is key to the protocols described in the NYT-bestseller The Checklist Manifesto.
MEDIA STAR: “Dr. Marty” appears regularly on CNN and Fox, has excellent media connections, and is already building a social media following. .
REFORM THAT SAVES MONEY-AND LIVES: Making hospitals accountable for results will improve care for millions of Americans, and decrease costs-reforms that can be embraced across the political spectrum.
WHISTLE BLOWER: Makary reveals how lofty reputations for treatment centers can belie abysmal peformance. Unaccountable’s hard-hitting, honest blast of medical reporting will open eyes and draw headlines.
The problems he describes are real and disturbing . . . Dr. Makary argues that true reform will only come with full disclosure.
Makary’s diagnosis is dangerous, damaging secrecy; his therapy is radical transparency . . . [His] argument is powerful . . . [He] makes a strong case that the system we have is a disaster for patients.
Unaccountable is a gripping story about what’s wrong with the American healthcare system and what we might do to make it better.
A startling revelation of the dysfunction deeply embedded in the very culture of American medical practice, problems that health care reform scarcely begins to address.
This book should be read by all people, not just doctors and health administrators, so they can make wise decisions when it comes to choosing where, when and who will provide healthcare for themselves and their loved ones. You will be a wiser health consumer for reading this book.
- Title: Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
- Author: Marty Makary
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781608198399, 9781608198382, 1608198383, 1608198391
- Resource ID: LLS:9781608198399
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:20:36Z
Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H. is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a professor of Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He is an advocate for health care innovation, writing in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He has written extensively on organizational culture, the science of measuring quality in medicine, and health care reform. Dr. Makary is principle investigator of a Robert Wood Foundation Grant to lower health care costs in the U.S. by creating physician-endorsed measures of appropriate medical care and directs the national “Improving Wisely” project to reduce waste in medicine. He is the author of the bestselling book Mama Maggie-a book about a Nobel prize nominee, and the forthcoming The Price We Pay. He speaks nationally on disruptive innovation in health care.