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Shannon Brownlee: Is Too Much Medicine Making Us Sick?

The New America Foundation's Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated, spoke to a live audience on July 6, 2011, as part of Zócalo's ongoing series on healthcare.

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Shannon Brownlee is the acting director of the New America Foundation’s Health Policy Initiative and the author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer. She spoke to a live audience on July 6, 2011, as part of Zócalo's ongoing series on healthcaresponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation. You can watch the full video of her talk.

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