Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

Brownlee, Shannon

ISBN 10: 1582345805 / ISBN 13: 9781582345802

Verlag: Bloomsbury USA, 2007

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A critique of the modern-day American health-care system looks at the potential consequences of the current emphasis on overtreatment, revealing how modern medicine provides huge amounts of unnecessary care that is wasteful, expensive, and dangerous to the health of patients.

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Shannon Brownlee is an award-winning journalist whose stories and essays about medicine, health care, and biotechnology have appeared in such publications as the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and Time. Born and raised in Honolulu, she holds a master's degree in biology from the University of California. She is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. Brownlee lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and son.

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Titel: Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making...
Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: very_good