{"product_id":"unaccountable-what-hospitals-wont-tell-you-and-how-transparency-can-revolutionize-health-care-9781608198382","title":"Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Bestseller \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eUnaccountable \u003c\/i\u003eis that book.\"-Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnaccountable\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and reforming our broken healthcare system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarty Makary\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eMama Maggie\u003c\/i\u003e--a book about a Nobel prize nominee, and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eThe Price We Pay\u003c\/i\u003e. He speaks nationally on disruptive innovation in health care.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557064478994,"sku":"9781608198382","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_262dcaa3-d29f-4d1e-bad3-05efbbde788a.jpg?v=1731769918","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unaccountable-what-hospitals-wont-tell-you-and-how-transparency-can-revolutionize-health-care-9781608198382","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}