Healthy lifestyle when it comes to how we eat and how we exercise is cultural. The knowledge and skill of local doctors to treat your cancer or your diabetes has nothing to do with that. Our medical education system is far from the worst in the country and has actually improved immensely under the watch of David Boren.

I think tort reform is just one tiny issue in all of this. Its something to work on most definitely, but the incident you're talking about was (not surprisingly) blown way out of proportion by the sensationalists at KOCO and KFOR and probably even KWTV.