Overtreated [Kindle Edition]
Author: Shannon Brownlee | Language: English | ISBN: B003TWOK7A | Format: PDF, EPUB
Overtreated
Posts about Download The Book Overtreated [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link 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. Itoffers 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. Direct download links available for Overtreated
Posts about Download The Book Overtreated [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link 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. Itoffers 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. Direct download links available for Overtreated
- File Size: 531 KB
- Print Length: 363 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1582345791
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (June 25, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003TWOK7A
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,343 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #100 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Administration & Policy > Health Care Delivery
Read this book.
If you are in the American healthcare system, this is the single most important book you will ever read. If you are in a healthcare system that is moving towards "privatization" or "free market reform", this may be the most important book you will ever read. If you are a behavioral scientist interested in the role of behavioral factors in medical populations, this is the most important book you will ever read.
A science journalist with a real science background (an M.S. in Biology) and now a Fellow at the New America Foundation, Brownlee has brought together many strands of research to provide us with a picture of the core dilemma in the american health care system - why do we spend so much more than other industrialized countries while not producing better outcomes? At 16% of Gross Domestic Product (and climbing), the American healthcare system is 60-100% more expensive than any other industrialized country and yet we do not live as long as citizens there. Where all these countries cover 100% of their citizens, the American system leaves about 15% of its population (about 47 million people) uncovered at any one time (and even more if you include loss of coverage for extended periods, but not a whole year). Fifty percent of bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical bills. Americans avoid switching jobs for fear of losing coverage for pre-existing conditions. The U.S. manages to achieve these colossal failures while still expending 62% of all costs through the government (if civilian government employee's coverage is included as part of the government supported costs).
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"[This book] is an exploration of three simple questions:
(1) What drives unnecessary health care?
(2) Why should we worry about it?
(3) And once we understand how pervasive it is in American medicine, how can we use that knowledge to create a better system?"
The above is found in this stunning, eye-opening book authored by medicine, health care, and biotechnology and award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee.
Note that even though this book concentrates on the American healthcare system, what it says can be applied to the Canadian and European systems as well.
People familiar with the problems in healthcare will be familiar with some of the contents of this book. What they won't be familiar with is the true-life patient and whistle-blower stories (many of them ending up tragically) that Brownlee discusses to drive home the points she makes.
Almost every page has something interesting on it. I will provide a sample sentence from each chapter of this gripping book (these are just the tip of the iceberg):
(1) "As research would show over the coming decades, stunningly little of what physicians do has ever been examined scientifically, and when many treatments and procedures have been put to the test, they have turned out to cause more harm than good."
(2) "Every patient admitted to a hospital risks being hurt or even killed by the very people who wish to help her."
(3) "After blowing the whistle on the hospital and its specialists, he would lose practically everything he valued, his medical practice, his family, and his home."
(4) "The supply of medical resources, rather than the underlying needs of patients, is determining how much medical care they get.
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