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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book on the many failings of our health care system.  Why do we have 47 million American without insurance? Why are there over 100,000 patient deaths a year due to medical errors? And why the hell is care so expensive?<br/><br/>Brownlee gets into the various factors of why our system is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though not nearly as deliciously funny or narratively delightful as Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Shannon Brownlee’s book was very informative on a subject that I didn’t know much about previously (though apparently is common knowledge across medical schools in the nation). Primar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6922861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book about the American healthcare system was incredibly depressing. It had a lot of well-researched information about why the current system rewards the wrong things and simultaneously manages to cause both overspending and undertreatment. Here is a sampling of the things revealed by this book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75225868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone concerned about the US health care system needs to read this book. And lots of people will not like her conclusions. This extremely readable book, even for health care novices, has a simple premise, which is that our current system values economics over individuals, and is more concerned with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52327915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting points, and important to know, but it can't seem to get around the sense of &quot;scare tactic&quot; that permeates the chapters. There is also quite a bit of repeated material, over and over, to make extremely nuanced points that sometimes don't further the conversation. Instead, it ten...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46761547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is for everyone, healthcare workers and patients alike.  Brownlee lays bare the scary truth of what is desperately wrong with our health system in the US.  To the average person this book will be a shock, to the healthcare worker it will bring to light what you knew was wrong but could not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64008212">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overtreated was a decent primer, but I thought it was a bit too simplistic to be of real value.  <br/><br/>Brownlee takes an extremely complex, multifaceted issue and boils it down to one or two &quot;problems&quot; which I think can be misleading for readers who are not familiar with health econo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50328235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If there's one thing I learned from this book, it's this: Don't go to the hospital if you can avoid it. <br/>Health care policy is inherently dull, but I found this book extremely readable and very interesting. Brownlee's idea is that the basic problem in the U.S. health care system is its tendency...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14176571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't think I could learn anything truly new from another critique of the U.S. health care system, but this book was wonderful and offered many new insights.  Not just a look at the pharmaceutical or hospital industries.  This book also put American healthcare in a cultural perspective, that is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38025270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an extraordinary book.  It is in the Illich tradition, but much better written.  Brownlee is a meticulous researcher of great integrity.  Overtreated should be read by anyone who wishes to understand Americanmedicine.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great review of the Wennberg research.  Beautiful transition to the recent big stories in healthcare (e.g. the Tenet Hospital system in CA).  Her last chapter summarizes the latest thinking around health policy.  If America can embrace what Brownlee has summarized and Wennberg has proved over and ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12020496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brownlee says we need to do way more clinical trials of current treatments.  The way a doctor treats something has much more to do with who trained her than with good evidence.  Profitability is a big factor, too.]]></body>
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