Book 36: Overtreated: How Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

Ever have a pile of stuff fall on you slowly? This book was a bit like that. Each new chapter was another brick falling on the pile. Oh, that's another thing that's wrong with the system. Oh, I hadn't even thought of that mess that hurts doctors and patients. Oh, there's more. And something else.



The book described the many, many reasons that our medical system doesn't work too well: for instance, pharmaceutical marketing to both individuals and physicians, the fee-for-service system, the decline of primary care, and on and on. And there are so many financial incentives for many of the players in the system to keep things as they are now, rather than change them.