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

A 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.

Read.
This.
Book.
Now.

You will thank me at some point... whether it's before you have a c-section, an emergency appendectomy, back surgery in 40 years, etc. Although hopefully, by the end of 40 years, things will have changed.

This gives you information about the way insurance and medicine are mismanaged to your detriment. Ask your friends in healthcare what they honestly think about their job, their clinic, their Drs. and, if they trust you, they will confirm much of this information.*

*One thing I think that he missed was the fact that many employment contract clauses at clinics stipulate that negative speak from employees at the clinic/hospital about physicians and other healthcare professionals can be grounds for dismissal.

Sometimes 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.

Excellent 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.

The painful reality of what has been historically tolerated in healthcare and a clarion call to transparency as one of the solutions

Recommend by cousin Mildred