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Shannon Brownlee in U.S. News & World Report | 'A Different Way of Ranking Hospitals'

May 30, 2008
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...[The ratings] seem to me less a consumer tool than a prod to the public consciousness. They send a message of great and expensive imbalance, that part of our national healthcare problem, as Shannon Brownlee writes in her recent book, Overtreated, is the enormous weight of care that is simply unnecessary. LINK

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