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It offers a way to control costs and cover the uninsured, while simultaneously improving the quality of American medicine. Ms Brownlee will be joined by Dr Vikas Saini, Co-Director of the Lown Center and President of the Lown Foundation and a columnist for Prevention India magazine, as well as Professor David Rosenbloom, Acting Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a crusader, Brownlee has a clear vision ofwhat wrongs need to be righted. Nevertheless, Overtreated ultimately conveys a message of hope by reframing the debate over health care reform. Her book, Overtreated, was named the best economics book of 2007 by the New York Times. A former editor of US News & World Report, she is best known for her research and views on avoidable health care, the patchy quality of medical evidence, and the implications for health care policy.

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. Shannon Brownlee is a journalist and the acting director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. Money and Medicine screening and panel discussion with Shannon Brownlee

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