In Italy, a medical degree often means unemployment or underemployment.
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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.