Doctors in Ukraine, jobless in Britain

Al-Sheikh showing photos on his phone of his surgical work in Ukraine, at his home in Earl’s Court, London, while Sadova works on her CV at a library in Meopham, England. Often jobless or languishing in low-skilled posts, doctors who fled Russia’s invasion are forced to confront a difficult dilemma: see their skills go unused, or return to a country at war. — ©2023 The New York Times Company

DR Samer al-Sheikh stared numbly at the photograph of himself on his phone. The doctor pictured at the operating table was now almost unrecognisable to him.

“I lost everything,” he said.