Effective health care requires physicians tailor care to patients' individual life contexts, including their financial situation, social support, competing responsibilities, and cognitive abilities. Physicians, however, are poorly prepared to consider patients' lives when planning their care. The result is measurably harmful to individuals and costly to society. Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care covers ten years of empirical research based on hundreds of recorded doctor visits by patients and undercover actors alike, which revealed a widespread disregard of patients' individual circumstances and needs resulting in inappropriate care. These medical errors have been largely undocumented and unaddressed by the American healthcare system. This book tells the stories of patients whose care was compromised by inattention to individual context, and introduces novel methods for assessing the magnitude of the problem. It describes how these errors, termed "contextual errors," can be minimized through changes in how doctors are trained, how medicine is practiced and quality measured, and in the ways patients assert their needs during visits. The aim of this book is to open a dialog between patients, physicians, policy makers, and medical educators, about a serious quality problem that has been overlooked and understudied.

Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care

Medical Books

Schwartz, Alan

Saul J. Weiner

Medicine

Oxford University Press

First edition. A professor, reporter and CIA operative look into the death of a left-wing poet. Their search for his manuscript leads them to modern Chile, New York and Paris. xvi, 288 pages. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket.. 8vo..

No Country for Old Men

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Dutton Adult

When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume. The third edition is a comprehensive update of this very popular book - a companion for the Unix/Linux system administrator who needs to secure his or her organization's system, networks, and web presence in an increasingly hostile world.Focusing on the four most popular Unix variants today--Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD--this book contains new information on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), LDAP, SMB/Samba, anti-theft technologies, embedded systems, wireless and laptop issues, forensics, intrusion detection, chroot jails, telephone scanners and firewalls, virtual and cryptographic filesystems, WebNFS, kernel security levels, outsourcing, legal issues, new Internet protocols and cryptographic algorithms, and much more.Practical Unix &amp; Internet Security consists of six parts:
<ul>
<li>Computer security basics: introduction to security problems and solutions, Unix history and lineage, and the importance of security policies as a basic element of system security.</li>
<li>Security building blocks: fundamentals of Unix passwords, users, groups, the Unix filesystem, cryptography, physical security, and personnel security.</li>
<li>Network security: a detailed look at modem and dialup security, TCP/IP, securing individual network services, Sun's RPC, various host and network authentication systems (e.g., NIS, NIS+, and Kerberos), NFS and other filesystems, and the importance of secure programming.</li>
<li>Secure operations: keeping up to date in today's changing security world, backups, defending against attacks, performing integrity management, and auditing.</li>
<li>Handling security incidents: discovering a break-in, dealing with programmed threats and denial of service attacks, and legal aspects of computer security.</li>
<li>Appendixes: a comprehensive security checklist and a detailed bibliography of paper and electronic references for further reading and research.</li>
</ul>Packed with 1000 pages of helpful text, scripts, checklists, tips, and warnings, this third edition remains the definitive reference for Unix administrators and anyone who cares about protecting their systems and data from today's threats.

Practical UNIX and Internet Security: Securing Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux & Free BSD

Computers & Technology

Garfinkel, Simson

Spafford, Gene

Certification

O'Reilly Media

The annoyance factor for individual users whose email is crammed with pitches for pornography, absurd moneymaking schemes, and dubious health products is fierce. But for organizations, the cost of spam in lost productivity and burned bandwidth is astronomical. While society is grappling with a solution to the burgeoning crisis of spam proliferation, the pressure is on system administrators to find a solution to this massive problem in-house. And fast. Sys admins can field scores of complaints and spend months testing software suites that turn out to be too aggressive, too passive, or too complicated to setup only to discover that SpamAssassin (Sa), the leading open source spam-fighting tool, is free, flexible, powerful, highly-regarded, and remarkably effective. The drawback? SpamAssassin's lack of published documentation. SpamAssassin by Alan Schwartz, is the only published resource devoted to SpamAssassin and how to integrate it effectively into your networks. This clear, concise guide clarifies the installation, configuration, and use of the SpamAssassin spam-checking system (versions 2.63 and 3.0) for Unix system administrators using the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, or qmail mail servers, helping administrators make the right integration decision for their particular environments. It covers concrete advice on how to: Customize SpamAssassin's rules, and even create new ones Train SpamAssassin's Bayesian classifier, a statistical engine for detecting spam, to optimize it for the sort of email that you typically receive Block specific addresses, hosts, and domains using third-party blacklists like the one maintained by Spamcop.net. Whitelist known good sources of email, so that messages from clients, coworkers, and friends aren't inadvertently lost. Configure SpamAssassin to work with newer spam-filtering methods such as Hashcash (www.hashcash.org) and Sender Policy Framework (Spf). Sys admins, network administrator

SpamAssassin: The Open Source Solution to SPAM

Web Development & Design

Commercial transactions: Principles and policies (University casebook series)

Business

Foundation Press

A coursebook on the law of sales, sales law and the contracting process provides analysis of important cases and principal Code provisions. It examines the business environments in which sales transactions occur. Discusses the counseling role of lawyers.

Sales Law and the contracting process (University casebook series)

Business & Money

Covers the law and principles governing commercial transactions and includes expert commentary on commercial law practices. Encompasses principles of commercial law, contracts, risk of loss, warranty, disclaimers and remedy limitations, damages and related remedies, excuse for nonperformance, conflicting rights to goods, credit transaction, financing and collateral, secured transactions, security interests in bankruptcy, default and foreclosure, negotiation and liability, forgery and alteration, holder in due course and bank collections. Includes analysis and discussion of terms and techniques involved in commercial law practice.

Commercial Transactions, Principles and Policies (University Casebook Series)

SCOTT, ROBERT

Sales and the Contracting Process (University Casebook Series)

This text brings together important legal studies and a wealth of materials by economists, historians, political scientists, and sociologists to illuminate the intellectual currents and social and political forces behind contemporary practices and procedures. Designed to complement any standard casebook, it will be an invaluable resource both for the required contracts course and for any upper-level contract theory course. The Foundations of Law Series offers a collection of comprehensive readings that provide an interdisciplinary perspective on a substantive legal field. Edited by scholars who have made important contributions, the readings are designed to provide an accessible introduction to the leading scholarship in a field. Accompanying notes and questions permit students to engage fully in the literature on their own, as well as to aid their understanding of material covered in classes.

Foundations of Contract Law (Foundations of Law Series)

Craswell, Richard

Carolina Academic Press

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN follows three major characters: Eric Newman — an idealistic academic obsessed with the truth about the death of a left–wing poet of the 1930s for his almost finished biography of the writer; Eric’s old friend Nick Burns — a federal agent with no illusions; and Odette des Chavannes — a high profile investigative journalist who is always pursuing a blockbuster story. Their objective — to recover the long-lost technology that is the key to a secret weapon for psychological warfare. Their quests intertwine in a globetrotting journey from New York to Washington, Paris, Buenos Aires and Santiago, through a labyrinth of multinational power and international corruption, where rules and stakes shift constantly and adversaries wear many masks.

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