Judicial investigation of complaints.

area display a striking variety. Ignoring many important differences among Western countries, Soviet orthodoxy reduces the variation to a crude dichotomy between "capitalist" and "socialist" political systems. Taking the United States as a paradigm, it indicts "capitalist" states as the home of malpractice suits and (so far as I know) completely disregards statutory schemes for review of complaints, such as the Health Service Commissioner in the United Kingdom. As legislation now stands, of course, that officer of the Crown may not examine issues that turn on clinical judgment, and hence he differs sharply from his Soviet counterpart (to use the term very broadly). In the Soviet Union responsibility