Marty Makary
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestseller
Business Book of the Year—Association of Business Journalists
From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system—and the people who are saving it—now with a new Afterword by the author.
"A must-read for every American." —Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief,...
Business Book of the Year—Association of Business Journalists
From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system—and the people who are saving it—now with a new Afterword by the author.
"A must-read for every American." —Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief,...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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. This book chronicles Mama Maggie's surprising pilgrimage from privileged child to stylish businesswoman to college professor pondering God's call to change.
