That is the reason expert reports were frequently sought. It meant that those who were not so intimately involved with the patient could send a report to and give evidence in the court. That the general practitioner does not have to give the report means the patient can be referred to another practitioner or the patient might realise it is better to get somebody other than the general practitioner to produce the report. If someone reads in a report that the injury did very little to make the person's back worse, he or she will go back to the doctor and ask what he or she meant. General practitioners remember the fall from the bar stool in Torremolinos in 1993. It will avoid that type of awkwardness, which will be a good thing. I will pass the information on to my colleagues in the Irish College of General Practitioners and the IMO general practitioners' committee.