| it's a monopoly end of story in portugal, public workers are one of the biggest lobbies medicine - can't be taught at (non public) private universities - there's limited growth in class sizes/etc - it's nearly impossible to get into due to grade inflation at high school, which means only the richer paying for private high school pass it (requires grade 19.x/20 at least) At the same time, there's 100s of nursing schools (can't be too different can it?), there's way too many nurses and way too few doctors. We're importing doctors from cuba and other countries to fill the gap. Some people decide to study abroad (within EU) because yay, you study medicine in eastern europe, you may come back to work in Portugal because EU, and again only the richer people could afford this |