THE first comprehensive national investigation of the "crisis" in medical-practice litigation in the United States has now been completed and the Report has been officially published.1 In the news release on the Report, Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Weinberger greeted it as an important work of research and study and asserted that the findings and recommendations will "serve as a beginning for further public discussion of the problem of malpractice...."2 That it undoubtedly will be. However, it may also be a center of severe, quite bitter controversy. It is difficult to satisfy anyone in this field, let alone to achieve . . .