'I love this country': US doctors head to New Zealand as cure for America's ills

Number of physicians yearning for a move has increased substantially since the Covid-19 pandemic, recruitment firms say

When Dalilah Restrepo, then a New York-based physician, clicked on an email in 2018 asking if she was looking for experiencing something abroad", she was sceptical. And then I opened it, and I was like ... New Zealand? Gosh, that's a bit drastic."

Restrepo, who had been in private practice for 10 or 11 years", was exhausted.