Overtreated

Author: Shannon Brownlee
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1582345791
Category: Medical

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

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.it's the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve-but is so often misunderstood."-David Leonhardt, New York TimesOur 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 Brownlee dissects what she calls "the medical-industrial complex" and lays bare the backward econom

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