Author: Brownlee, Shannon

Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the world's most skilled physicians, yet 100,000 patients die annually from medical errors. Using vivid examples of real patients and physicians, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee shows that much of the "care" our system delivers is unnecessary and even harmful - except to politicians and the medical industry. Then she presents a plan to control costs and cover the uninsured while improving the quality of American medicine. Now in paper. 368 pp.