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Overtreatment is a category of books that examines the overuse of medical care—tests, procedures, drugs, and diagnoses that offer little or no benefit and can cause harm. Spanning investigative journalism, clinician and patient narratives, epidemiology, and health policy, these works probe the incentives and beliefs that drive low-value care, from defensive medicine and fee-for-service payment to screening paradoxes, marketing, and the cultural notion that more care is better care. They detail the human, ethical, and economic costs of medical excess—incidental findings, care cascades, iatrogenic injury, and waste—while exploring solutions such as shared decision-making, evidence-based guidelines, Choosing Wisely, and value-based care. The genre equips readers to recognize and challenge overtreatment and to envision safer, more patient-centered, high-value medicine.

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