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...supposed to be trainees who are learning, and I believe that although being tired is part of the job for a doctor who delivers babies, students need to be awake to learn,” she wrote in e-mail. “In a field where an error in judgement can lead to a lifelong disability for a child, that we have an obligation to our patients to be alert...
...system. She's looking, Matrix-like, for suspicious patterns. "Here's someone sending 50 e-mails to 3,000 recipients," says Ford. "That stinks." With one click, the sender is identified as a China-based spammer; with another, he is banished from the system. Is there room for human error? Possibly--but letting such high-volume users through, says AOL antispam manager Charles Stiles, "would be like a bank welcoming customers in ski masks...
...almost 15% of the U.S. economy--why can't somebody just use common sense and fix things? The villain, I believe, is our legal system, which has become a free-for-all, lacking the reliability and consistency that are essential to everyone, especially doctors and patients. Most victims of error get nothing, while others win lottery-like jury awards even when the doctor did nothing wrong. Because of the resulting fear and distrust, doctors and other health-care providers no longer feel comfortable making sensible judgments...
...same goes for all of us. We can root out every error, every plagiarist, every bias--but it won't do any good if we replace them with a gutless inoffensiveness. We've spent a month being worried that our readers and viewers hate us because they think we're liars. Relax, brethren; they don't. They hate us because they think we're phonies...
...portfolios to around 50% equities, 30% fixed-interest products and 20% exposure to property and commodities - and have a cash cushion of three to six months' salary. "Then," says Justin Modray, an adviser at Bestinvest, "in tough times you won't have to cash in at disadvantageous terms." [an error occurred while processing this directive] Get work to pay Corporate benefits vary across the E.U. - in the U.K., company pension plans cover almost half the work force, whereas in France they are still in their infancy. Historically, it has not been easy for Europe's workers to take pensions with...