In Italy, a medical degree often means unemployment or underemployment

Susan Thorne

Canadian Medical Association Journal 1996; 154: 889-890

Susan Thorne is a freelance writer living in Kingston, Ont.

Abstract

Italy's per capita concentration of physicians is the highest in the Western world, and many of them have to struggle to earn a living as they compete for a decreasing number of prestigious hospital positions. Many Italian doctors have more than one job, and some never find work in medicine.

| CMAJ March 15, 1996 (vol 154, no 6) |