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Overtreated - Why too much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer

Author	Shannon Brownlee
Subject	Unnecessary health care
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date	2007
Publication place	United States
Pages	342
ISBN	978-1-58234-580-2
OCLC	137325161

Overtreated - Why too much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer is a 2007 book by Shannon Brownlee about unnecessary health care.

Reviews

The reviewer for The New York Times said that the book was "the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve—but is so often misunderstood".^[1] Kirkus Reviews described the work as "A bombshell of a book: must reading for consumers, their political representatives and all those White House contenders".^[2] The reviewer for The Christian Science Monitor said that the author's conclusions in the book were "fascinating, counterintuitive, and potentially revolutionary".^[3] A reviewer writing in a social work journal found the book's findings "insightful" and the examples given as "poignant".^[4]

The book was reviewed in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association by Norton Hadler, who praised the arguments made, but criticized their quality and the lack of reliance on primary sources.^[5] Shannon Doyle in American Journal of Medical Quality similarly praised the timeliness of the book and the detailed arguments, but noted that it the issue is not framed in a political context.^[6] In Nursing Ethics, Clair Kaplannotes the extensive use of data in arguments, but was disappointed by the lack of information about nursing.^[7]

References

^ Leonhardt, David (19 December 2007). "No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions". The New York Times. New York. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
^ "Overtreated - Kirkus Review". Kirkus Reviews. 1 July 2007.
^ "When a pound of cure is too much". csmonitor.com. 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
^ Cox, L. E. (2009). "A Review of: "Brownlee, S. (2007).Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer."". Journal of Social Work in End-Of-Life & Palliative Care. 5 (3–4): 219–221. doi:10.1080/15524250903555759. S2CID 74464762.
^ Hadler, Nortin (7 November 2007). "Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 298 (17): 2070–2075. doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2071-a.
^ Doyle, Shannon (March–April 2010). "Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer". American Journal of Medical Quality. 25 (2): 159–160. doi:10.1177/1062860609346502. S2CID 71519473.
^ "Overtreated: why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer". Nursing Ethics. 16 (2): 255–256. March 2009. doi:10.1177/0969733008100084. S2CID 71478496.

interview with author on The Health Care Blog
book review on the Healthcare Economist blog
Are Today's Hospital Patients 'Overtreated'? NPR interview of author about book by Ira Flatow
video interview by National Institutes of Health
video interview with Shannon Brownlee about Overtreated on C-SPAN
video on book and author by BMJ

v t e Unnecessary health care
Causes	Direct-to-consumer advertising Overscreening Overdiagnosis Fee-for-service Defensive medicine Unwarranted variation Overmedication Overmedicalization Prescription cascade Quaternary prevention Disease mongering Political abuse of psychiatry
Overused health care	Caesarean delivery on maternal request Antibiotic misuse Benzodiazepine use disorder Opioid use disorder Psychoactive drug Proton-pump inhibitor Polypharmacy treatment of incidentaloma
Tools and situations	Deprescribing Choosing Wisely Medication discontinuation Withdrawal syndrome
Works about unnecessary health care	Overtreated The Treatment Trap Selling Sickness Overdosed America

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