Marty's Books
2020
The Price We Pay
What Broke American Health Care - And How to Fix it
One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising healthcare costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading healthcare experts, travels across America and details why healthcare has become a financial crisis. Using vivid stories and original research, Dr. Makary explains how a new business model of price gouging, middlemen, and a series of elusive money games is in need of a serious shake-up. He shows how so much of healthcare spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary also untangles medical bills that are so confusing most doctors can't interpret them and challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.
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2015
Mama Maggie
The Untold Story of One Woman's Mission to Love the Forgotten Children of Egypt's Garbage Slums
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, but her full story has remained untold—until now. Bestselling authors Martin Makary and Ellen Vaughn chronicle Mama Maggie’s surprising pilgrimage from privileged child to stylish businesswoman to college professor pondering God’s call to change. She answered that call by becoming the modest figure in white who daily navigates piles of stinking trash, bringing hope to the poorest of the poor. Smart and savvy, as tough as she is tender, Maggie Gobran is utterly surrendered to her mission to the “garbage people” who captured her heart. At her request, the book also spotlights the people she serves—the men, women, and children who prove every day what a little bit of help and a lot of love can do.
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2012
Unnacountable
What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
A New York Times best-selling book about the effort to make our healthcare more transparent and safer for patients. Focusing on both old ways of doing business and new innovations disrupting health care, this is a guidebook for patients and reformers alike.
The book details the hazards of transparency done poorly and the reward of transparency done well--when physicians and patients are at the center. How do we take health care to the next level? The barriers and heroes of the American health care system are highlighted vividly in this Library Journal Book of the Year.
Order UnnacountableThe book details the hazards of transparency done poorly and the reward of transparency done well--when physicians and patients are at the center. How do we take health care to the next level? The barriers and heroes of the American health care system are highlighted vividly in this Library Journal Book of the Year.
