A woman's death in the operating theatre sparks off a two-months' row between two top consultants -a brain surgeon and an anaesthetist. Patients are prepared for operations that do not take place. Administrators cannot control the consultants. The area health authority's internal inquiry at first fails to satisfy the Minister of Health, and even today disturbs many who claim the truth has not come out. In this investigative film, Jack Pizzey looks at the implications which can arise when consultants, for whatever motives, try to fulfil too many commitments