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Marty Makary

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Born

Liverpool, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.unaccountablebook.com

Genre

Health, Mind & Body

Member Since

September 2012

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Dr. Makary is a surgeon and researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Unaccountable by Bloomsbury Press and a national advocate for transparency in health care.

Dr. Makary was the lead author of the original publications on the surgery checklist which he and Dr. Pronovost adapted from their experience with patient safety in the ICU. He subsequently served in leadership roles at the United Nations W.H.O., where the surgery checklist was adopted and expanded to become the W.H.O. surgery checklist. Dr. Makary also led the W.H.O. technical workgroup on developing metrics to measure surgical quality worldwide.

Dr. Makary’s current efforts focus on patient empowerment through increased transparency of medical in ...more

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Average rating: 4.37 · 11,105 ratings · 1,449 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It 4.45 avg rating — 4,444 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health 4.35 avg rating — 4,513 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care 4.29 avg rating — 1,701 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mama Maggie: The Untold Story of One Woman's Mission to Love the Forgotten Children of Egypt's Garbage Slums by Marty Makary (Goodreads Author), Ellen Santilli Vaughn 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pontos cegos: Quando a medicina erra e como isso afeta a nossa saúde by Marty Makary (Goodreads Author), Cássio de Arantes Leite (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quando la medicina sbaglia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El médico no siempre tiene la razón / Blind Spots 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medizinische Irrtümer und ihre fatalen Folgen: Wie falsche Empfehlungen unsere Gesundheit aufs Spiel setzen - „Eine unverzichtbare Lektüre.” (Peter Attia, Autor von „Outlive“) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--And How to Fix It 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Freedom of speech is not designed for easy speech—speech that is welcomed by the majority because it affirms their beliefs. It’s designed to protect speech that is uncomfortable—speech that challenges groupthink.”
― Marty Makary, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

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“U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.”
― Marty Makary, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

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“A cruel irony came to light in follow-up studies. They found that participants who took estrogen alone had lowered their risk of breast cancer by 23% and lowered their risk of breast cancer death by 40%. That benefit diminished over time after women discontinued HRT.”
― Marty Makary, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

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