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Marty Makary
Marty Makary

Marty Makary is a renowned American physician and advocate for healthcare reform. His work focuses on improving medical quality and the healthcare system. Dr. Makary is a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of the book 'When Doctors Say: The Truth About the Healthcare System,' which reveals many unknown issues within the medical industry. more

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“The U.S. has a so-called health care system that has nothing to do with the promotion of health. Those who run this system do not care about your health, and it's far from being a system. It's a fragmented patchwork of procedure-oriented services that are meshed in a voluminous trail of paper payments, with little relevance to community-based needs. This misdirected, disease-managed non-care system of symptom suppression demands more and more treatment at higher and higher costs. If they cared at all, you'd be treated like a human, not like a number resembling, quite frankly, the ear tags on a cattle herd.”

“Take on your life head-on and create a story that you are excited to be living. Be relentless during the hard times, humble during triumphs, and always hungry for the best version of yourself to show up each and every day.”