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Would you trade your salary for free medical school and "tort-adverse" malpractice?

Discussion on France’s health system:

. . . the average American physician earns more than five times the average US wage while the average French physician makes only about two times … average earnings of … compatriots. But the lower income of French physicians is allayed by two factors. Practice liability is greatly diminished by a tort-averse legal system, and medical schools, although extremely competitive to enter, are tuition-free. …

“Tort-adverse” malpractice. Something tells me the lawyers will be united with the doctors in fighting such a system.

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