Unaccountable Quotes

“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

“At most of the 'reputable' hospitals at which I trained, quality was highly variable and teamwork notoriously lousy.”
― Marty Makary, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

“The shocking truth is that some prestigious, large hospitals have four to five times the complication rates of other hospitals in the same city.”
― Marty Makary, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

“We're subtly taught a bias toward treatment rather than restraint.”
― Marty Makary, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

“Years after completing my medical training, I encountered one of my favorite public health professors, Harvard surgeon Dr. Lucian Leape. at a national surgeons' conference. He opened the gathering's keynote speech by looking out over the audience of thousands and asking the doctors to 'raise your hand if you know of a physician you work with who should not be practicing because he or she is dangerous.'

Every hand went up.”
― Marty Makary, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

“Just as the financial crisis was incubated when unaccountable bank executives created a culture of rewarding short-term profits without wanting to know the ugly details about their mortgage-backed securities, so too does medicine’s lack of accountability create an institutional culture that fosters overtreating and runaway costs.”
― Martin Makary, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care