Dr. Makary, associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore and author of the book “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care,” delivered a keynote address at the National Center for Healthcare Leadership’s 2013 Human Capital Investment Conference in Chicago Tuesday.
Back when he was a resident, Dr. Makary saw two physicians perform separate colonoscopies, in which they discovered polyps in their respective patients. Each, however, went about removing the polyp in a different way — one via endoscopic surgery, another through open surgery. Despite having the resources and expertise to perform the procedure endoscopically, the physician who decided on surgery said his reason was a simple one: “That’s how I like to do it.”
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