The best medicine: almost one doctor in three at the Inselspital in Bern is German. They represent just a fraction of the thousands of doctors who leave Germany each year to take jobs abroad. Swiss News sits down with one such medical emigrant to discuss her reasons for leaving her homeland, and what prompted her to settle in Switzerland.

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The best medicine: almost one doctor in three at the Inselspital in Bern is German. They represent just a fraction of the thousands of doctors who leave Germany each year to take jobs abroad. Swiss News sits down with one such medical emigrant to discuss her reasons for leaving her homeland, and what prompted her to settle in Switzerland.

Valeska Beck has worked as an anaesthesiologist at the Inselspital--the teaching hospital belonging to the University of Bern--since January 2006. At present, however, she is on a leave of absence with her son, nine-month-old Constantin, and can find the time to chat about her life in Switzerland. When she is working at the hospital, there is little time for chatting--or even for much of a lunch break.

On a typical workday, Beck leaves her home in Belp at 6:15 am. She arrives at the hospital in time to ...

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