![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() American medicine is in desperate need of fixing. Tens of thousands of patients die each year from overtreatment. Backward economic incentives allow patients with chronic conditions to receive ineffective care, and roll after roll of red tape undermines even the best-intentioned doctors. The interests of politicians and the medical-industrial complex continually trump those of patients, seducing the wealthy with unnecessary procedures and leaving the poor with haphazard access to treatment. 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 and wasteful but can actually imperil the health of patients. 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. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies. ![]()
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