Marty Makary

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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
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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

“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

“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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