Learn

+SHARE

Interested in learning about overuse, underuse, and misuse of tests and treatments in today’s health care delivery system? We’ve compiled a list of books, films, blogs, and videos that will send you on your way!

Books

Bernard Lown, MD

Shannon Brownlee, MS

Ira Byock, MD

Katy Butler

Ranjana Srivastava, MD

Leana Wen, MD
Joshua Kosowsky, MD

H. Gilbert Welch, MD
Lisa Schwartz, MD
Steve Woloshin, MD

Otis Brawley, MD
Paul Goldberg

Dennis McCullough, MD

Victoria Sweet, MD

John E. Wennberg, MD

Alan Cassells, Ray Moynihan

Randi Redmond Oster

Angelo Volandes, MD

Atul Gawande

H. Gilbert Welch, MD

Charles Kenney

Marty Makary, MD

Danielle Ofri, MD

Rosemary Gibson
Janardan Prasad Singh

Best-Care-Anywhere-Longman-Phillip-EB9781609945824

Phillip Longman

Rosemary Gibson
Janardan Prasad Singh

Maggie Mahar

Joanne Lynn, MD
Joan Harrold, MD

Robert Wachter

Sandeep Jauhar

Andy Lazris, MD

Richard Young, MD

Films

Being Mortal: FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.

ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: what can be done to save our broken medical system? The film examines the powerful forces trying to maintain the status quo in a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground. ESCAPE FIRE follows dramatic human stories as well as leaders fighting to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the US military. The film is about a way out, about saving the health of a nation. Directed by Susan Froemke and Matthew Heineman

With remarkable candor and poignancy, Money and Medicine captures the painful end-of-life treatment choices made by patients and their families, ranging from very aggressive interventions in the ICU to palliative care at home. The film also investigates the controversy surrounding diagnostic testing and screening as well as the shocking treatment variations among patients receiving a variety of elective procedures. Just as the national debate over health care cost containment and deficit reduction heats up, these intimate patient portraits put a human face on the crisis facing American medicine. Jump2Directed by Roger Weisberg