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Publication date 2007 ISBN 978-1-58234-580-2 Originally published 2007 Page count 342 Subject Unnecessary health care | 4/5 Goodreads Pages 342 OCLC 137325161 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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".
Kirkus Reviews described the work as "A bombshell of a book: must reading for consumers, their political representatives and all those White House contenders."
The reviewer for The Christian Science Monitor said that the author's conclusions in the book were "fascinating, counterintuitive, and potentially revolutionary".
A reviewer writing in a social work journal found the book's findings "insightful" and the examples given as "poignant".
The book was reviewed in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Medical Quality, Nursing Ethics.