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Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Written by Marty Makary, M.D.
Narrated by Robertson Dean
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About this audiobook
Dr. Marty Makary is codeveloper 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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Reviews for Unaccountable
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Like most business and current affair books, this one spirals away from its main point to fill an arbitrary page count. Despite that, I think Makary's central point is well stated and thoroughly supported. He also makes his case in plain English and peppers it with personal anecdotes and confessions to make it interesting to laymen.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sometimes you hurry through a book because your TBR pile is the size of K2. I read this within one day. But towards the end, I began to realize how wonderful this book is, it is certainly as good as the effort of his contemporary Dr. Gawande. They apparently collaborated on checklists. Robots, business pressures, lack of critiques and accountability, lagging performance behind the aviation sector, etc. are all handled in a very readable manner. It's not a new book anymore, but it's a good one.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent book. I appreciate the results of Marty's research. It is refreshing for someone to provide an honest and patient centric perspective on the current medical system. I agree that accountability is the key to improvement. I hope that his perspective will be adopted.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The painful reality of what has been historically tolerated in healthcare and a clarion call to transparency as one of the solutions
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A profoundly disturbing "inside look" at America's health care system, but also a hopeful call for more transparency, accountability, and patient-oriented treatment. Much of the book is difficult to read, as Makary recounts horror stories from his career and reveals the dirty little secrets that hospitals don't want you to find out. His suggestions, though, are almost all based on pure common sense and seem as though they'd save a great number of lives.