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Publication date
  
2004

ISBN
  
978-0061344763

Originally published
  
2004

Page count
  
384

Subject
  
Unnecessary health care

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Pages
  
384

OCLC
  
55044815

Author
  
John Abramson

Publisher
  
Harper Perennial

Country
  
United States of America

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Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine is a book about unnecessary healthcare.

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Reviews

A reviewer for BMJ called the book "the latest in a series of searing indictments of a medical profession apparently duped by the false promise of technology, and too often compromised by cold hard cash from the companies selling the drugs and devices."

The reviewer for The Washington Post stated that the strength of the book was in its ability to discuss articles from scientific journals.

Another reviewer said that in the book the author "presents a strong indictment of the evidence that dictates medical practice, a challenge that is credible only because Abramson backs up his statements with detailed analyses of the prevailing evidence

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