Marty Makary, MD, a surgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and associate professor of surgery and health policy at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, both in Baltimore. He is author of Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care (Bloomsbury). TransparentHealthCare.org
There was a time in America when people trusted their doctors, and the mission of hospitals was to care for…
