Brownlee dissects what she calls "the medical-industrial complex" and lays bare the backward economic incentives embedded in our system, revealing a stunning portrait of the care we now receive. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. "My choice for the economics book of the 's the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve-but is so often misunderstood."-David Leonhardt, "New York"" Times"
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