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Overtreated - Why too much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer
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 by Norton Hadler, who praised the arguments made, but criticized their quality and the lack of reliance on primary sources.[5] Shannon Doyle in American Journal of Medical Quality similarly praised the timeliness of the book and the detailed arguments, but noted that it the issue is not framed in a political context.[6] In Nursing Ethics, Clair Kaplannotes the extensive use of data in arguments, but was disappointed by the lack of information about nursing.[7]

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Overtreated - Kirkus Review". Kirkus Reviews. 1 July 2007.
  3. ^ "When a pound of cure is too much". csmonitor.com. 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  4. S2CID 74464762
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  5. doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2071-a
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  6. S2CID 71519473
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  7. S2CID 71478496
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