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Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. Brownlee dissects what she calls "the medical-industrial complex" and lays bare the backward economic incentives embedded in our system, revealing a stunning portrait of the care we now receive.
Nevertheless, Overtreated ultimately conveys a message of hope by reframing the debate over health care reform. It offers a way to control costs and cover the uninsured, while simultaneously improving the quality of American medicine. Shannon Brownlee's humane, intelligent, and penetrating analysis empowers readers to avoid the perils of overtreatment, as well as pointing the way to better health care for everyone.
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"Highly provocative. This book should push all your buttons, no matter what your politics are. Big medicine is messy business. A friend in the industry is working on a data driven platform to help advance real objective evidence based medicine, and after reading this book, I can see why he's so passionate about the need for his new approach.
As an IT professional for over 30 years, it's a crime how long it's taken the industry to get PCs into the hands of working doctors. Only when we capture real time data and start to mine it is the practice of medicine going to actually get done properly. This book makes it extremely clear that there's a huge problem with how things have been done for a very long time and the only fix is for the entire industry to embrace the type of changes that are in this book. Everyone needs to read this book and recommend it to others, so that the industry can be held to a higher standard.
This book has a lot of very uncomfortable things in it, but everyone needs to just wade in. The risk of remaining ignorant is too high."
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Overtreated Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee 9781582345796 Books Reviews
- The U.S. has an illusion that it has the best health care in the world. We are fantastic at acute care but struggle with providing excellent care for chronic conditions because the system is not designed to address these issues effectively. Doctors are paid to treat not to prevent disease and it continues to spin out of control. Shannon Brownlee shows us how we got to where we are in health care with bold recommendations for how to transform the health of our nation with several examples of success that are already happening around the country. She discusses medical errors, doctors taking advantage of the system for profit, the pharmaceutical industries role in pushing more medicine via direct to consumer marketing and controlling research, how some therapies are more harmful than the disease or less agressive treatments, how the rise of the current managed care model has fractured the doctor-patient relationship, and how the current system remains structured towards specialists instead of rewarding quality primary care. I challenge all of my brothers and sisters in medicine and all those in government to read this book and have the courage to transform our healthcare system to one that we know is possible.
We can bring healing to our systems and our patients but we need a new model of healthcare. One that puts a premium on the patient and what's best for each one of them regardless of color, religion, ethnicity or socioeconomic status. To see each suffering human being and wish to relieve that suffering is our oath as physicians and society and we must uphold the finest tradition of our calling. -Dr. Michael Rocha, Cardiologist Hawthorn Medical Associates, LLC, Dir. New Bedford Wellness Initiative; Co-founder Physicians to Prevent Opioid Abuse. - Least insane of the healthcare quality books I have read of late. Shannon Brownlee isn't promoting an agenda other than revealing how much waste and art is currently involved in the practice of American medicine. Despite pills on the cover, procedures and testing are also covered in her treatment of medicine. The solution presented lacks a means by which to obtain it and a bit too much of taking Wennberg as gospel, but otherwise a wonderful unbiased look at healthcare.
- Highly provocative. This book should push all your buttons, no matter what your politics are. Big medicine is messy business. A friend in the industry is working on a data driven platform to help advance real objective evidence based medicine, and after reading this book, I can see why he's so passionate about the need for his new approach.
As an IT professional for over 30 years, it's a crime how long it's taken the industry to get PCs into the hands of working doctors. Only when we capture real time data and start to mine it is the practice of medicine going to actually get done properly. This book makes it extremely clear that there's a huge problem with how things have been done for a very long time and the only fix is for the entire industry to embrace the type of changes that are in this book. Everyone needs to read this book and recommend it to others, so that the industry can be held to a higher standard.
This book has a lot of very uncomfortable things in it, but everyone needs to just wade in. The risk of remaining ignorant is too high. - An essential book about our broken healthcare system, which has become a business driven mostly by profit. The best protection for patients against unnecessary medical "care" is evidence to know whether or not highly promoted treatments are effective. The recent 21st Century Cures Act has lowered the already-low standards of evidence for the National Institutes of Health, and recent rule changes by our new president have lowered evidence standards for the Food and Drug Administration. The medical sector of our economy, currently at 17.8 percent of our GDP, is expected to reach 20 percent in 10 years, sucking money out of the pockets of American workers. Other countries spend much less, and yet the United States ranks near the bottom, compared to other wealthy countries, in most aspects by which medical care is judged. The number of people with health insurance has been rising, and yet American life expectancy is declining. Preventable medical errors have become the number three cause of death in the United States, after cancer and heart disease. "Too much medicine" is indeed "making us sicker and poorer."
