Overtreated
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| Author | Shannon Brownlee |
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| Country | United States |
| Subject | Unnecessary health care |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Publication date
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2007 |
| Pages | 342 |
| ISBN | 978-1-58234-580-2 |
| OCLC | 137325161 |
Overtreated - Why too much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer is a 2007 book by Shannon Brownlee about unnecessary health care.
Reviews
The reviewer for The New York Times said that the book was "the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve — but is so often misunderstood".[1]
Kirkus Reviews described the work as "A bombshell of a book: must reading for consumers, their political representatives and all those White House contenders."[2]
The reviewer for The Christian Science Monitor said that the author's conclusions in the book were "fascinating, counterintuitive, and potentially revolutionary".[3]
A reviewer writing in a social work journal found the book's findings "insightful" and the examples given as "poignant".[4]
The book was reviewed in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association,[5] American Journal of Medical Quality,[6] Nursing Ethics.[7]
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Further reading
- interview with author on The Health Care Blog
- book review on the Doctor Skeptic blog
- book review on the Healthcare Economist blog
- Are Today's Hospital Patients 'Overtreated'? NPR interview of author about book by Ira Flatow
- video interview by National Institutes of Health
- video interview with Shannon Brownlee about Overtreated on C-SPAN
- audio interview of author about book on Science Friday
- video on book and author by BMJ
