, which showed that patients in hospitals that spent the most “were 2% to 6% more likely to die than patients in hospitals that spent the least.” Additionally, she says, billions per year are spent on unnecessary tests and drugs and on specialists who are rewarded more for some procedures than for more appropriate ones. But technology and drugs are misused and overused, she argues, citing a 2003 study of one million Medicare recipients, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Medical journalist Brownlee acknowledges that state-of-the-art medicine can improve care and save lives.
Contrary to Americans' common belief that in health care more is more-that more spending, drugs and technology means better care-this lucid report posits that less is actually better.
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