ABSTRACT
‘Whistle blowing’ is a horrible term. It conjures up unpleasantness and, however professional the osteopath may be, the idea of ‘grassing’ on a colleague, however poor the quality of his or her work may be, is anathema and feels more at home in an episode of The Bill. The feeling of ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ is strong in respect of professional work and, as poor practice is often (though by no means exclusively) associated with older practitioners, younger colleagues are disinclined to report any shortcomings simply because they know that they will be older one day and threatening a practitioner’s livelihood by preventing them from practising seems draconian.
