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Overtreated : why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer

Title
Overtreated : why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer / Shannon Brownlee.
Author
Brownlee, Shannon.
Publication
New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2007.
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343 pages; 25 cm
Summary
A critique of the modern-day American health-care system looks at the potential consequences of overtreatment, revealing how modern medicine provides huge amounts of unnecessary care that is wasteful, expensive, and dangerous to the health of patients.
Subjects
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-330) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Too much medicine -- 2. The most dangerous place -- 3. Your local hospital -- 4. Broken hearts -- 5. The desperate cure -- 6. The limits of seeing -- 7. The persuaders -- 8. Money, drugs, and lies -- 9. The doctor isn't in -- 10. Less is more -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9781582345802
  • 1582345805
LCCN
2007021968
OCLC
  • ocn137325161
  • 137325161
  • SCSB-5643770
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Columbia University Libraries