At the end of medical school, young, Austrian doctors-to-be have to work for three or four years in different departments in hospitals and serve their so-called "Turnus". A nationwide survey, presented for the first time in this episode of "Thema", now shows the catastrophic mood among the young doctors.

More and more resign or go abroad. Instead of learning from their experienced colleagues, they spend their first years in the hospitals als cheap laborers. Bert Ehgartner explores the causes behind this "Uprising of Trainee Doctors".