'Doctors have a saying: Never get admitted to a teaching hospital in July, because that's when all the new interns arrive fresh from medical schools.'.

Instead of going to detail, I would just cite some sentences from the book: Eight: Money, Drugs, and Lies (my favorite chapter).See Book Reviewer's comments from AmazonĮven though this book was written two years ago (in 2007), the arguments, the facts, the reasoning described in this book is very much relevant to the situation today (when the debate on the health care reform heats up). I intended to write a blog about this book, then found that many people had already expressed their opinion about this book. I enjoyed very much in reading this book. By comparing the health care system between the United States and the China, you could easily think of these terms, especially when I heard the new medical conditions 'ADHD - Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder', 'M-IBS - Mixed Irritable Bowel Syndrome', 'Chronic Fatigure Syndrome (CFS)', 'fibromyhalia' when I saw the images how many pills a patient took regularly.ĭriven by the NPR interview with Shannon Brownlee ( Are Today's Hospital Patients 'Overtreated'?), I went to the local library to borrow her book 'Overtreated: why to much medicine is making us sicker and poorer'. these are the terms I have used in one of seminars several years ago. 'Overtreated', 'Overdiagnosed', and 'Overdosed'.

Overtreated by Shannon Brownlee