Unaccountable What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

Name: Unaccountable What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
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ISBN: 9781608198382

ISBN-10: 1608198383

ISBN-13: 9781608198382

Edition: 2013

Authors: Martin Makary, Martin Makary

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“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…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.30" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction



Some Random Doctor



Dr. Hodad and the Raptor



Danger Zones



The New York Experiment



The Supersurgeon and the Shah



"How I Like to Do It"



Navigating the System



Tap the Power of Patient Outcomes



The Wild West



Impaired Physicians



Medical Mistakes



Ask Before You Give



Eat What You Kill



The All-American Robot



Transparency Time



Drivers of Culture



Healthonomics



Candid Cameras



A New Generation for Honest Medicine



What Accountability Looks Like


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index