Relentless Health Value

I’m going to summarize some points that Dr. Marty Makary made in his manifesto for why he wrote his most recent book. The Price We Pay is its name. You can hear this manifesto in his own words—in Dr. Makary’s own words—on Relentless Health Value episode 242, but here’s his point: He said that the 2007 banking crisis, writ large, resulted from complexity that kept onlookers confused. So, when people questioned the banks being overleveraged and selling mortgages to, you know, those who couldn’t afford them, experts responded by saying, “You know, it’s very complicated. Leave it to us.” But on the ground, it was clear there was a problem. And in hindsight, there obviously was a problem.  Here’s the point that Dr. Makary was making, which I think is super valid: Many of the entrenched stakeholders in medicine fend off criticism by claiming that these are highly complex systems that should be left to experts. They say, “You wouldn’t understand. Leave it to us.” And just like the experts in the banking industry got