Signals of the future of work (Oct. 2022)

Brain drain: Spain suffers shortage of family doctors

Many of us know of young doctors who have decided to move to other countries, lured by better employment conditions and higher salaries than those they would earn in Spain. Well, this month we learned that as many as 18,000 medical professionals have followed this path over the last ten years. If we factor in the massive number of doctors expected to retire from the Spanish healthcare system over the next two decades as baby boomers reach the end of their working lives, the problem becomes all too evident. And while the medical field as a whole is indeed in a tricky spot,