Unaccountable

What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

By: Marty Makary MD

Narrated by: Ian Porter

Bloomsbury presents Unaccountable by Marty Makary, MD, read by Ian Porter

New York Times Bestseller

"Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that's seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book."—Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated

Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer 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.

©2026 Marty Makary, MD (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

why write this book now?

the author writes very critically about the entire medical industry in which he was a willing participant. looks like he just wants to make a few dollars by writing an easy book.

the correct name of his former employer is JOHNS Hopkins, not JOHN Hopkins.

lastly, Peter Attia absolutely positively never had <1% body fat...that's a ridiculous assertion.