I want to get back into the habit of tracking what I read this year. Here's my first review of the year. As a newly minted professional patient I have become interested in healthcare policy and the way doctors think. Unaccountable was a very interesting look at the ways hospitals and doctors hide behind their professions and lack the same kinds of accountability measures seen in other businesses. As much as some deny it, medicine is a business. Paitents are the customer. This book explores some key issues in medicine's lack of transparency and offers concrete suggestions of how to rectify them.
Issues discussed include: medical mistakes, impaired or otherwise dangerous phyiscians,over-treatment and over-reliance on unproven technologies.
Thew bottom line is this is an important book for anyone interested in finding out how healthcare could be better.
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