Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
by Shannon Brownlee
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Author: Shannon BrownleeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-02
ISBN: 1582345791
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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Book Review: Excellent
Summary: 4 Stars
The author does a fine job of pointing out the wasteful overspending in health care, and backs it up with lots and lots of relevant facts. The book is packed with enough information to allow readers to win any debate about health care reform at any casual cocktail party. And probably most debates with professionals, too.
The only fault I find with the book is that the author is a little hard on the doctors for ordering too many tests and procedures. She is right, to be sure, but she overlooks an essential point. Doctors and patients are people, and won't always behave in the most rational fashion. When there are human beings involved there will always be a certain amount of inefficiency.
Nevertheless, she is arguing nothing but the facts, and it is hard to go wrong when you stick to the truth.
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