Overtreated / Brownlee, Shannon

Argues that America's health care system is providing unnecessary, high-tech medical care thereby enriching hospitals and doctors, driving up the overall cost of health care, and endangering patients' lives. The author offers a way to control costs, cover the uninsured, and improve the quality of America's health care.

The author provides examples from real patients and doctors to show how the health care system delivers huge amounts of unnecessary and expensive care that results in the death of thousands of patients each year.