Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Shannon Brownlee, . . Bloomsbury, $25.95 (343pp) ISBN 978-1-58234-580-2
Contrary to Americans' common belief that in health care more is more—that more spending, drugs and technology means better care—this lucid report posits that less is actually better. Medical journalist Brownlee acknowledges that state-of-the-art medicine can improve care and save lives. But technology and drugs are misused and overused, she argues, citing a 2003 study of one million Medicare recipients, published in the
Reviewed on: 07/23/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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