“I’m seriously considering emigrating,” says João Luís Silva, who works as an orthopedic surgeon in Lisbon. “Several hundred hours of overtime every year, that’s just not life anymore.” After studying in Coimbra and six years of training to become a specialist in orthopedics, he sees little future in his own country – and Portugal’s health system is in danger.
Portugal’s health system overloaded. Doctors go on strike – economy
