Overtreated
Subtitle: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Published: September 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781582345802
Subjects: Health Care Delivery; Social Science / General; General; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Medical care; United States; Utilization
Description: 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.