Bad medicine.

Should surgeons' success and failure rates be published? How can we ensure that doctors keep up to date with information about drugs and are proficient in the skills they practice? Keyhole surgery is a procedure for which no formal training is required, although an authority on this technique, Prof. Alfred Cuschieri (Ninewells Hospital, Dundee) insists that by no means all surgeons have an aptitude for it. "Panorama"looks at freedom of information in the U.S.A. which allows patients to select the surgeon with the best success rates in any field and reports from Glasgow on Britain's first experiment in purchasing