Hospitals ‘Unaccountable,’ says surgeon in new book

USA TODAY | 9/18/2012 |Kim Painter   Most of us know how to comparison shop for a car, a home or the week’s groceries. But when it comes to picking hospitals and doctors, we’re pretty much in the dark, says Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.Makary, who studies patient safety, has written a new book: Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care. He says it’s time for patients to stop picking hospitals based on slick marketing, proximity and parking â?? and to start getting some facts about which hospitals and doctors do the best jobs of making sick people better. Read more and click here for the “Unaccountable” Book Trailer.