Is America Overmedicated? Afternoons on theDove's full interview with John Abramson M.D., author of 'Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine' and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School.
According to Abramson, Americans are overmedicated and overmedicalized as a result of the commercialization of health care. Falling prey to marketing campaigns, we demand unnecessary and expensive drugs and procedures, believing they constitute the best possible medical care.