Wheezing with a whistle

Whistle Abrasion: A Case Report

Abrasion is the physical wearing of a tooth surface which can involve the presence of a foreign object repeatedly being in contact with the tooth. A 40-year-old male patient reported to our dental clinic with a 2-3 mm uneven gap between his upper and lower front teeth on occlusion. A detailed history revealed that he was a physical education teacher, and the habitual placement of the whistle fo...

Educating the Whistle - Blower

Blowing the Whistle

Leniency clauses, offering cartelists legal immunity if they blow the whistle on each other, is a recent anti-trust innovation. The authorities wish to thwart cartels and promote competition. This effect is not evident, however; whistle-blowing may enforce trust and collusion by providing a tool for cartelists to punish each other. We examine the impact of leniency law, and other rules, theoret...

Whistle for your wind.

Dyspnoea on exertion is the main complaint of patients with chronic obstructive airways disease. Any improvement in their breathlessness and exercise tolerance would substantially improve their quality of life.' Attempts have been made with both drugs and oxygen, but the former have only a partial effect and the benefits of long term domiciliary oxygen are restricted to those with severe hypoxa...

Some Paradoxes of Whistle-Blowing

By "paradox" I mean an apparent—and, in this case, real—inconsistency between theory (our Systematic understanding of whistle-blowing) and the facts (what we actually know, or think we know, about whistle-blowing). What concerns me is not a few anomalies, the exceptions that test a rule, but a flood of exceptions that seems to swamp the rule. This paper has four parts. The first states the stan...