Overtreated

Author: Shannon Brownlee
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1582345805
Category: Medical

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies. Download Overtreated medical books for free.
Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. Using vivid examples of real patients and physicians, Overtreated debunks the idea that most of medicine is based in sound science, and shows how our health care system delivers huge amounts of unnecessary care that is not only expensive Get Overtreated our bestseller medical books.

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Using vivid examples of real patients and physicians, Overtreated debunks the idea that most of medicine is based in sound science, and shows how our health care system delivers huge amounts of unnecessary care that is not only expensive

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