Economics
European Doctors Are Giving Up on the U.K.
Just under 3,500 registered to work in 2017, a 26 percent drop from 2014.
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Andrea Pevere had a great job offer: a permanent position as an anesthesiologist in the U.K., where she had previously worked and lived. But she worried about what would happen to her immigration status—she is Italian—once Britain formally leaves the European Union in 2019.
Instead, like an increasing number of European doctors, she decided against the move, accepting a limited-term contract in France.