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

Robertson, Robin, Dr. Stephen Black, Healthy Knees Total Knee Replacement: The Five Pillar Plan to Prepare for Your Knee Surgery and Recover So You Get the Most Out of Your New Knee, Niche Pressworks, 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