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

<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538861-unaccountable" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care" border="0" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344317040m/13538861.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538861-unaccountable">Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5786795.Marty_Makary">Marty Makary</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/590250404">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />

Everyone in America should read this book to be informed about our medical care in the United States. It is written by a doctor who wants "regular" people to understand the risks and benefits of their health care. Dr. Marty Makary wants us to know that we have a right to take charge of our health and all decisions involved in it. It is not shocking to read that many procedures done are driven strictly by the increase in profit and not because of the necessity to a patient's health. It is downright scary!

It took courage for Dr. Makary to write a book like this about his field in medicine and the many problems within it: thousands of incompetent doctors , the secrecy behind pushing dangerous and unnecessary treatments and surgeries solely to increase profit margin, kickbacks doctors receive for using chemotherapy despite scientific fact of its toxicity to humans, performing organ transplants instead of just partially removing a tumor because then the patient needs to be on lifetime meds and complications, the "never should happen" events such as wrong limbs amputated or foreign objects being left inside surgery patients, and the list could go on and on. I am so glad I read this book! Yes, I am grateful for the advances in technology and medicine. But it is good to be informed because that is how we can make intelligent choices.

Kudos to Dr. Marty Makary for taking the initiative to do and say what needs to happen! He is truly a model of leadership education.

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