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

by Martin Makary and Marty Makary

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608198367
• ISBN13: 9781608198368
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"