BOOKS EXCESSIVE HEALTH CARE

SHORT LIST

 

Abramson, John, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine, Harper Perennial, 2004

 

Belk, David MD, Paul Belk PhD, The Great American Healthcare Scam: How Kickbacks, Collusion and Propaganda Have Exploded Healthcare Costs in the United States, David Belk, 2020

 

Bigelsen M.D., Harvey, Trowbridge MD, John Parks, Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs: How Surgery Can Be Hazardous to Your Health - And What to Do About It, North Atlantic Books, 2011

 

Bollyky, Thomas J., Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways (The MIT Press), The MIT Press, 2018

 

Brawley, Otis Webb and Paul Goldberg, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Brownlee, Shannon, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, Bloomsbury USA, 2008

 

Cassels, Alan and Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease, Greystone Books, 2012

 

Grelsamer, Ronald P., A Patient's Guide to Unnecessary Knee Surgery: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Hasty Medical Advice, Skyhorse, 2017

 

Hadler, Nortin M., Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society, The University of North Carolina Press, 2011

 

Hadler, MD Nortin M., Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman), The University of North Carolina Press, 2008 

 

Hanscom, Dr. David, Do You Really Need Spine Surgery?: Take Control With a Surgeon’s Advice, Vertus Press, 2019

 

Harris, Ian, Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence, University of New South Wales Press, 2016

 

Huey, Lynda, Heal Your Hips: How To Prevent Hip Surgery And What To Do If You Need It, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015

 

Kiernan, Stephen P., Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System, St. Martin's Griffin, 2007

 

Klapper, Robert L., Lynda Huey, Heal Your Knees: How to Prevent Knee Surgery and What to Do If You Need It, M. Evans & Company; Revised edition, 2007

 

Offit, Paul A. M.D., Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far, Scribe UK, 2020

 

Welch, Gilbert, Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care, Beacon Press, 2015

 

Welch, H. Gilbert, Lisa Schwartz, Steve Woloshin, Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health, Beacon Press, 2012

 

Wennberg, John E., Tracking Medicine: A Researcher's Quest to Understand Health Care, Oxford University Press, USA, 2010

 

 

OTHERS

Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Richard A., Patrick Ph.D. M.S.P.H., Donald L., Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises, AMACOM, 2005

Gibson, Rosemary and Janardan Prasad Singh, The Treatment Trap: How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It, Ivan R. Dee; Reprint edition, 2011

Grelsamer, Ronald P. MD, WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT (TM): KNEE PAIN AND SURGERY: Learn the Truth about MRIs and Common Misdiagnoses--and Avoid Unnecessary Surgery, Grand Central Publishing, 2004

 

Hough, Douglas E., Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why (Stanford Economics and Finance), Stanford University Press, 2014

Tomes, Nancy, Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (Studies in Social Medicine), The University of North Carolina Press, 2016