Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
by Shannon Brownlee
Rating
LanguageEnglish
Total Pages343 pages
ISBN
9781582345802
Published
2007
Description
Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies. Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six americans has no health insurance. We have some of the mos...Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies. 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.