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What are the opportunities for Taiwan healthcare workers to emigrate? Sometimes the surprising quality comes from lack of perspectives for the workers (for example strict visas requirements in contrast to EU free labour movement). Many very good doctors from Central and Eastern Europe emigrated and the quality of healthcare dropped.

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When I went to Taiwan in 2009, several people told me that Taiwan exports lots of doctors to China. Here's the only reference I can find right now: http://focustaiwan.tw/news/atod/201403250026.aspx

This exists, but not much. As a matter of fact, many healthcare workers (especially registered nurses) work very, very long hours and get way less paid than they do in other countries. Also I would expect quality of surgeries would drop in future years due to lawsuit or lack of trust between doctor/nurse-families of patient causing doctors/nurses quitting.

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