Marty Makary
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Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
From Johns Hopkins medical expert and bestselling author Dr. Marty Makary—an eye-opening look at scientific research on health topics that have been overlooked or dismissed because of medical groupthink.
Modern medicine has developed giant blind spots. Learn about the latest research on topics that are NOT routinely discussed in traditional medical settings, but are central to your health:
- The Microbiome
- Hormone Replacement Therapy for Women
- The Peanut Allergy Epidemic
- Eggs (& other foods)
- Blood tests rarely ordered that everyone needs
- Childbirth
- Cancer Prevention
- Marijuana
- The Culture of Medicine
- GLP-1 Drugs Longterm
- Medical Dogma
Could it be that many modern-day health crises have been caused by the hubris of the medical establishment? Experts said for decades that opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid crisis. They have been refusing menopausal women hormone replacement therapy, causing unnecessary suffering. They demonized natural fat in foods, driving Americans to processed carbohydrates as obesity rates soared. They told people there are no downsides to antibiotics and prescribed them liberally, causing a drug-resistant bacteria crisis. When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades. Dr. Makary reveals the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackles the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem. The backstories behind the medical dogma that is propagated for decades can be absurd, entertaining, and jaw-dropping—but the truth is essential to our health.
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Opinion | How to Reopen America Safely - The New York Times
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Surgeon Scorecard | NBC4 Washington
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Books by Marty Makary
“Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health” (2024)
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
“The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How To Fix It” (2019)
One In Five Americans Now Has Medical Debt In Collections And Rising Health Care Costs Today Threaten Every Small Business In America. Dr. Makary, One Of The Nation's Leading Health Care Experts, Travels Across America And Details Why Health Care Has Become A Bubble. Drawing From On-the-ground Stories, His Research, And His Own Experience, The Price We Pay Paints A Vivid Picture Of Price-gouging, Middlemen, And A Series Of Elusive Money Games In Need Of A Serious Shake-up. Dr. Makary Shows How So Much Of Health Care Spending Goes To Things That Have Nothing To Do With Health And What You Can Do About It. Dr. Makary Challenges The Medical Establishment To Remember Medicine's Noble Heritage Of Caring For People When They Are Vulnerable. The Price We Pay Offers A Roadmap For Everyday Americans And Business Leaders To Get A Better Deal On Their Health Care, And Profiles The Disruptors Who Are Innovating Medical Care. The Movement To Restore Medicine To Its Mission, Makary Argues, Is Alive And Well--a Mission That Can Rebuild The Public Trust And Save Our Country From The Crushing Cost Of Health Care.
“Mama Maggie: The Untold Story of One Woman's Mission to Love the Forgotten Children of Egypt's Garbage Slums” (2015)
Since 1997, Maggie Gobran and her organization Stephen’s Children have been changing lives in Cairo’s notorious zabala, or garbage slums. Her innovative, transformational work has garnered worldwide fame and multiple Nobel Prize nominations, but her full story has remained untold—until now. Bestselling authors Martin Makary and Ellen Vaughn chronicle Mama Maggie’s surprising pilgrimage from privileged child to stylish businesswoman to college professor pondering God’s call to change. She answered that call by becoming the modest figure in white who daily navigates piles of stinking trash, bringing hope to the poorest of the poor. Smart and savvy, as tough as she is tender, Maggie Gobran is utterly surrendered to her mission to the “garbage people” who captured her heart. At her request, the book also spotlights the people she serves—the men, women, and children who prove every day what a little bit of help and a lot of love can do.
“Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care” (2013)
Dr. Marty Makary is codeveloper of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress and efforts to curb expenses. Why? To patients, the healthcare system is a black box. Doctors and hospitals are unaccountable, and the lack of transparency leaves both bad doctors and systemic flaws unchecked. Patients need to know more of what healthcare workers know, so they can make informed choices. Accountability in healthcare would expose dangerous doctors, reward good performance, and force positive change nationally, using the power of the free market. Unaccountable is a powerful, no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and reforming our broken healthcare system.
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