Surgery
Dr. Marty Makary practices surgical oncology and advanced laparoscopic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and is a professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Recent Articles
Advocacy
Newsweek | No Industry Hides Pricing From Its Customers Like Healthcare Does - This Has to Stop
October 02, 2019
Imagine if travel websites listed flights with no prices, as airline companies argued that they simply can't know the price before you fly.
USA Today | We spend about half our federal tax dollars on health care. That's ridiculous.
September 16, 2019
Politicians make lots of promises on health care. Maybe they should promise to get rid of waste.
MedPage Today | I Shed My White Coat to Find the Healthcare Bloat
September 12, 2019
Johns Hopkins surgeon details what has gone wrong in the health care industry and offers pathways to fix it.
Wall Street Journal | Doctors Sound an Alarm Over Leg-Stent Surgery
September 10, 2019
Johns Hopkins researchers analyzing Medicare data say they’ve detected physicians performing what look like unnecessary vascular procedures.
Health Affairs | Let's Not Make Children Wait 17 Years
April 05, 2019
Research shows that it takes approximately 17 years for evidence to become broadly adopted into clinical practice. In the case of silver diamine fluoride (SDF) therapy, a simple and painless treatment alternative to drilling dental caries in children, we should move faster.