1. Too much medicine -- 2. The most dangerous place -- 3. Your local hospital -- 4. Broken hearts -- 5. The desperate cure -- 6. The limits of seeing -- 7. The persuaders -- 8. Money, drugs, and lies -- 9. The doctor isn't in -- 10. Less is more
Summary
"In this eye-opening book, Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. Using vivid examples of real patients and physicians, Overtreated debunks the idea that most of medicine is based on sound science, and shows how our health care system delivers huge amounts of unnecessary care that is not only expensive and wasteful but can actually imperil the health of patients."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index
