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OR Excellence Feel the Difference - 2014 Session Preview - June 2014

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2 3 J U N E 2 0 1 4 | O R E X C E L L E N C E. C O M S U P P L E M E N T T O O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E A merican medicine, the envy of the world, still sees such unthinkable errors as wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgeries, retained objects, and fatal medica- tion errors in frequencies that have not significantly declined over the past decade. According to Marty Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, associate professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md., the blame for these incidents extends well beyond a moment's distraction, to the way that healthcare practitioners have been trained to do business and what they do and don't communicate to each other and their patients. In "How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care," he isn't afraid to call it as he sees it. • More is less. As a busy doctor, I have watched patients increasingly fed up with a fragmented health care system littered with perverse incentives. It's an industry that does not abide by the same prin- ciples of accountability for performance that govern other industries. Instead, our health care system leaves its customers walking in blind. All while sim- ply rewarding doctors for doing more. K I C K E R S heddi n g L i ght on S ur ge r y Dr. Makary explores how transparency would improve patient care. Marty Makary, MD, MPH, FACS where leaders meet, learn and grow together Speaker Profile • Practices advanced laparoscopic pan- creatic surger y at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. • Associate professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. • Pioneered research on the use of surgical safety checklists. • Author of "Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care." 1406_ORX_guide_Layout 1 5/29/14 3:23 PM Page 23

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