Summary: Dr. Marty Makary, surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, says if medical error were a disease, it would be the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S. Dangerous doctors, unnecessary procedures, surgical slips and other medical mistakes injure or kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. Meanwhile, hospitals and doctors are not required to make their patient-outcome statistics public. Makary, associate professor of health policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says that it’s time for the public to start demanding transparency from medical care providers. Makary is the author of "Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care.”
