What Is Makary's Accountability?

Unaccountable is a powerful, nonpartisan prescription for informing America on our broken health care system. Dr. Marty Makary, a leading surgeon at John Hopkins Hospital, is sharing his firsthand experience about the dangers in the health care business, which lacks transparency and accountability. Patients need to know more of what’s going on in the health care facilities, so they can make better decisions. The points I will expand in the following body sections are the accountabilities in hospitals that will force positive change, expose the dangerous and damaging secrets that patients don’t know about, and doctors who get rewarded for bad performances. When going to the hospital, one should not have to second guess whether they are risking their life. In chapter seven Dr. Makary states “getting good care can be a complex maze that confuses even the savviest consumers” (83). I agree with Dr. Makary that everyone should consider the kind of hospitals they choose to go to. At some point, every patient in
Specifically, Dr. Makary argues that business leaders are accountable for their earnings reports. There are four measures used to track hospital performances, these include bounce backs, complication rates, never events, and safety-culture scores. I agree with Dr. Makary when he states “without the standardization that makes comparisons fair and accurate, true transparency is unattainable” (210). Dr. Makary points seem to be very accurate. For example, study shows “hospitals that do a poor job self-monitoring their infections get rewarded and hospitals with close patient follow-up and independent nurses gets punished for capturing more infections in their reported rates” (210). Small changes in physicians and staff members’ behaviors can influence patient