Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by a repeat guest Dr. Marty McCary who has a prestigious position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where he's a professor of surgery, a full professor of surgery, and we interviewed him about six years ago for his previous book which which was called Unacceptable. And now he's written a new book, which is really fascinating.

It's called The Price We Pay.

And it delves deeply into some of the profoundly this serious

cop or just serious problems that we have in our health care system with especially as it relates to the financing

of it.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Great to be with you.

Yeah, so before we start, I thought it would be wise

to frame the the institution that you're associated with

Johns Hopkins that you're associated with,

Johns Hopkins, and your training,

because most people watching this

probably aren't aware of what a prestigious hospital it is.

I mean, the US News and World Report,

which is a pretty objective barometer

of making judgments in this area, because many media sources are not, especially when it comes to health.

We know that for sure.

Wikipedia and Google be in the classic examples.

Has rated your institution the top hospital in the entire country, not just once or twice, but 22 of the last 28 years.

So, you know, that's quite an accomplishment. So maybe you can expand on it for a bit for a bit just to know what your

foundation is coming from. It's a real special place. I love working at Johns Hopkins. The people

are phenomenal and at the same time we have a really great platform to push the field of medicine. The field needs to be pushed in

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