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File Size: 14950 KBPrint Length: 729 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 1284055914Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 6 edition (January 5, 2015)Publication Date: January 5, 2015 Sold by: Digital Services, Inc. Language: EnglishID: B00SBOI34MText-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #345,139 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #2794 in Books > Computers & technology > Computer Science #5359 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Computers & Technology #116473 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction
It’s been a semester since I had to buy this expensive shrink-wrapped textbook for my Intro to Computer Science class. In a text like this, topics are glossed over in an attempt to cover a wide range of ideas related to general CS. Even after a semester of CS and having gotten my feet wet in related areas (3D graphics programming, networking, and network security), I still say this text falls short of providing any real material to the budding computer scientist/engineer.
The author Nell Dale’s writing inadequately explains certain concepts, something which could make these first time topics even more distant, or even further confuse those – particularly those with no prior programming or computer experience, especially those taking Intro to CS as an elective. For example, our professor taught us a more adequate technique in binary arithmetic. Dale’s explanations of binary arithmetic are slightly confusing, especially to the uninitiated.
While the focus of the first semester was on beginning OOP with C++, we ended the semester with basic programming concepts (e.g. functions, data types, pointers, etc.) and the fundamentals of the OO paradigm (using C++). The chapter on programming paradigms, in my opinion, is utterly TERRIBLE. Although I took time outside of class to read better books on the subject, had I solely based my budding knowledge of OOP on this textbook, I would’ve been in trouble down the road — I didn’t understand a thing of OOP based upon this book’s explanations. 3-4 pages are solely dedicated to the seemingly Stone Age concept of using "class cards".
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Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Wendell Potter ID: B004CJJJKC
“My name is Wendell Potter, and for 20 years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies. I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick—all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.” —Senate testimony, June 24, 2009 Wendell Potter is the insurance industry’s worst nightmare. In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar public relations campaigns designed to spread disinformation. Potter had walked away from a six-figure salary and two decades as an insurance executive because he could no longer abide the routine practices of an industry where the needs of sick and suffering Americans take a backseat to the bottom line. The last straw: when he visited a rural health clinic and saw hundreds of people standing in line in the rain to receive treatment in stalls built for livestock. In Deadly Spin, Potter takes listeners behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd health care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits. Whatever the fate of the current health care legislation, it makes no attempt to change that fundamental problem. Potter shows how relentless PR assaults play an insidious role in our political process anywhere that corporate profits are at stake—from climate change to defense policy. Deadly Spin tells us why—and how—we must fight back.
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Health care continues to limp on in the United States. We are ranked 46th out of all the Top 50 nations for health care in the world. Part of the issue is that health care is run like any other business and yet it isn’t truly a business–profiting on someone’s else’s health or denying coverage for a pre-existing condition (or stating that a technique is experimental when, in fact, it isn’t so as to deny coverage and keep the patient alive)is a form of gambling but it gambles with people’s lives which makes it Wendell Potter worked for what he would probably characterize as the "enemy" now for over twenty years. As a PR executive he would weave lies into a positive "truth" for the company he worked for (Cigna) making it appear that they were always doing the right thing for their patients. Using statistics to lie is one thing (for example dropping people off the unemployment rolls that are reported to make it appear that the nation is covering when it isn’t)but Potter would often twist the truth or help craft messages to appeal to middle America to scare the public from reform in health care.
One day Potter had an awakening and realized what he was doing was wrong leaving the industry that had nurtured him and becoming an advocate for proper health care and a government based system to force corporations to play fair. He just couldn’t stomach hiding greed behind the veneer of double speak falling into a rabbit hole with language that only George Orwell would recognize. He chronicles his rise in the industry and his disillusionment and how the media is manipulated, patients, government to make decisions that are profiting major corporations at the cost of our health and lives.
The title of this book, "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans" is a bit off-putting. Reading it, I mentally prepared myself for a diatribe written by a disgruntled low-level employee out to get his pound of flesh. We all know that health insurance companies are in the habit of denying coverage and raising premiums, occasionally exorbitantly, but they aren’t all that bad, right? Surely not as bad as the Wall Street firms that first took away our retirement savings and then our jobs.
I worked in the financial industry for 25 years. Nothing I saw there was as heinous as what is revealed in this book. Put simply, Wall Street may take away people’s money, but health insurance companies take away people’s lives.
Author Wendell Potter was an insurance company executive, heading up a PR department. For years, he participated in the shameless pursuit of profits over lives until he finally came face to face with the effects on real people of what he was doing. Visiting a clinic set up on a fair ground offering free health care to those who had no insurance and no means to pay for health care, he saw ordinary hardworking people reduced to being treated in animal stalls.
He has written about his experience in the health insurance industry, as well as his epiphany, in a straightforward manner, making it more powerful than if he had penned an hysterical screed. He takes us, step by step through the changes in the health insurance industry from a privately held companies offering true health insurance to the modern publicly owned companies whose focus is on profits rather than health.
Wendell Potter was formerly in charge of public relations for Humana and then Cigna. Potter’s intent in "Deadly Spin" is to expose the deceptive techniques of public relations in the insurance segment of health care. He does this quite well, and also provides readers with insight into the two events (the large turnout, including many with illusionary health insurance, for a free Pennsylvania dental and medical clinic; the death of a young girl after his employer dithered and delayed approving a necessary transplant) that turned him against continuing to defend the industry he had been part of for some 25 years. Potter begins by introducing readers to a sampling of tested phrases that have served the industry quite well, such as ‘socialized medicine,’ ‘government-run’ medicine, and ‘government takeover’ of medicine. Readers also gain exposure to other P.R. favorites, such as identifying with patriotism and the American way of life, testimonials, name-calling, smearing opponents (eg. Michael Moore and his "Sicko"), identification with plain folks, fake grassroot campaigns, junk science and statistical analyses, and euphemisms. A brief tour of the darker side of health insurance practice likewise is given – rescissions (retroactively canceling policies of those with large medical bills, using whatever pretext possible), and purging less than profitable accounts via large rate increases. Missing, however, is any comment on the fact that if the uninsured paid the same rates as insurance companies, much of the need for health insurance would go away, and a large proportion of medical bankruptcies avoided.
Universal health coverage began under Germany’s Otto Von Bismarck in 1883, with Social Security following in 1889.
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Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability 2nd Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Sidney Dekker Page ID: 1409440613
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Readers interested in organizational ethics and decision-making will benefit from the case studies and examples. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. –Choice, February 2013
…it is difficult to think of a more relevant and challenging book for health and safety practitioners, company managers and directors, regulators of all stripes, and members of parliament. –Safeguard, New Zealand, Jan/Feb 2013
About the Author
Sidney Dekker is Professor and Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Previously Professor at Lund University, Sweden, and Director of the Leonardo Da Vinci Center for Complexity and Systems Thinking there, he gained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA. He has worked in New Zealand, the Netherlands and England, been Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Visiting Academic in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne, and Professor of Community Health Science at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba in Canada. Sidney is author of several best-selling books on system failure, human error, ethics and governance. He has been flying the Boeing 737NG part-time as airline pilot for the past few years. The OSU Foundation in the United States awards a yearly Sidney Dekker Critical Thinking Award.
Hardcover: 171 pagesPublisher: Ashgate Publishing Company; 2 edition (June 6, 2012)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1409440613ISBN-13: 978-1409440611 Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 6.2 x 8.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #794,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #75 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Administration & Policy > Health Risk Assessment #123 in Books > Medical Books > Administration & Medicine Economics > Health Risk Assessment #304 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems > Health & Safety
An easy to read book that will test your preconceptions of what is meant by ‘just’. While I wasn’t convinced by the chapter on ethics (omitted Virtues which seem to more closely fit with the notion of Just), and his solutions appear recursive, the book contains more that enough to make it a worthwhile addition to the bookshelf.
This book beautifully lays out the decisions, dilemmas, and unintended consequences of either creating environments in which we can learn from accidents and near misses, or creating environments in which behaviors are hidden from fear of litigation, criminalization, or other punishments for "bad behavior." A must read for anyone trying to cultivate a safety culture in a high-stakes, high-complexity world!
Sidney Dekker, PhD and Boeing 737 Captain has a great way of describing a different approach to dealing with human error that is very proactive, positive, and constructive. It leaves the error maker with improvements to make rather than punishment to bear, and it is one of the smartest ways to approach corrective action when errors are made.
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ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Coding Handbook, with Answers, 2016 Rev. Ed. Revised Edition Edition
Author: Nelly Leon-Chisen ID: 1556484119
About the Author
Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA, heads the AHA Central Office on ICD-10-CM/PCS (formerly, ICD-9-CM) and the Central Office on HCPCS. She is the executive editor of AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS (formerly AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9-CM) and a member of the Cooperating Parties, the group responsible for the authoring and approval of the ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting.
Paperback: 720 pagesPublisher: AHA Press.; Revised Edition edition (August 24, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1556484119ISBN-13: 978-1556484117 Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 8.5 x 11 inches Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #15,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #6 in Books > Business & Money > Insurance > Health #8 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Administration & Policy > Medical History & Records #9 in Books > Medical Books > Administration & Medicine Economics > Medical History & Records
I am an inpatient coder for a Trauma I University Medical Center. This book was pivotal in my learning a new the code set – ICD-10 CM and PCS. If you are a coder, then this is a great book!
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Baking and Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft, 3rd Edition [Print Replica] Kindle Edition
Author: The Culinary Institute of America ID: B00UGE1U8Q
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File Size: 67112 KBPrint Length: 1136 pagesSimultaneous Device Usage: Up to 3 simultaneous devices, per publisher limitsPublisher: Wiley; 3 edition (February 4, 2015)Publication Date: January 30, 2015 Sold by: Digital Services, Inc. Language: EnglishID: B00UGE1U8QText-to-Speech: Not enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #171,267 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #58 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Bread #232 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Bread #47324 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction
It’s a great book, but there are definitely some incomplete recipes. I wanted to make the german chocolate brownies but the main ingredient is missing- CHOCOLATE!!! Now I have to figure out how much I need so I can make the recipe properly.
I bought it as text book and it is more just a cook book. There are a lot of recipes and not a lot of actual text to teach technique. The recipes are not cross referenced enough. That is, some of the base recipes are used to build other, more complex items but those more complex items are not always referenced. In several places it assumes knowledge that as a student I don’t necessarily possess, hence the need for a text book rather than a book of recipes. Some of the recipes also seem to have serious errors, the proportions are off (when compared to other books) and the recipe fails.
Very well written with easy to follow recipes, photography and illustrations are very high quality.
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Pharmacy Calculations 4th Edition
Author: Mary F. Powers ID: 1617310743
Loose Leaf: 400 pagesPublisher: Morton Publishing Company; 4 edition (February 22, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1617310743ISBN-13: 978-1617310744 Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #127,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #133 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Allied Health Services > Pharmacy #176 in Books > Medical Books > Pharmacology > Pharmacy #979 in Books > Medical Books > Allied Health Professions
I have been a pharmacy technician for 35 years. I work at a independent pharmacy and last month our bosses decided that we needed to be certified. In our work environment we do not use the calculations, IV preps etc that are required knowledge for the certification exam. I have not been a student for many years. I purchased this book with the hope that it would explain and help me get a great understanding of the calculations I need to learn. It has definitely done just that. I would recommend this book to anyone needing to study for the exam.
I used this book in class. It is amazing. I would definitely buy another book from this author.
was missing a few pages, but otherwise very good
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