Whistle-blower breaks his silence

Educating the Whistle - Blower

The Impact of Digital Government on Whistleblowing and Whistle-blower Protection: Explanatory Study

This paper focuses on the contribution of digital government (DGOV) to Whistleblowing (WB). While considerable efforts have been devoted to DGOV and WB separately, research work at the intersection of these two domains is very scarce; hence and a systematic DGOV for WB (DGOV4WB) research framework has yet to emerge. This paper aims to identify the potential issues in whistleblowing and explore ...

The Silence of the Unblown Whistle: The Nevada Hepatitis C Public Health Crisis

In 2008, one of the worst public health crises occurred in the state of Nevada, where authorities discovered up to 63,000 patients were potentially exposed to hepatitis C infection, largely due to substandard infection control and other negligent practices at two endoscopy clinics in Las Vegas. In the subsequent grand jury proceedings that followed, it was discovered that several clinic employe...

Electric Blower Based Portable Ventilator

When a patient is unable to breathe or maintain their airway they will most likely be ventilated by a bag-valve-mask. We propose to replace the traditional bag-valve-mask with an electric blower ventilator. This handheld feedback controlled device will automatically compensate for mask leak and enable the clinician to deliver computer controlled respiratory rates and tidal volumes. We have buil...

His very silence speaks. Comanche: the horse who survived Custer's last stand

Montreal between 1821 and 1871. Ken Pryke details the relationship between poor relief and health care in Halifax between 1827 and 1849 while Heather MacDougall surveys the emergence of the "sanitary idea" in Toronto between 1866 and 1890. Wendy Mitchinson explores the reasons for committals to the Toronto Asylum in the mid-nineteenth century. Michael Bliss resurrects J. B. Collip, the "forgott...