# The immigrant doctors keeping New Zealand alive Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432/the-immigrant-doctors-keeping-new-zealand-alive Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432/the-immigrant-doctors-keeping-new-zealand-alive.md Podcast: [The Detail](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432) Published: 2026-05-06T17:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail?share=3ebf6fbb-ebf8-4a60-963b-21dcbcb48f63 Audio file: https://flex.acast.com/media.rnztools.nz/rnz-kete-oro-prod/video/private/ac_mp3,af_48000,br_192k,f_mp3,fl_attachment/v1778039169/audio/thedetail/thedetail-20260507-0400-the_immigrant_doctors_keeping_new_zealand_alive.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-detail-83432/episodes/the-immigrant-doctors-keeping-new-zealand-alive Duration seconds: 1351 ## Resource An American doctor in Palmerston North says he can't think of a single ED doctor in his team who was born here. With about 70 percent of new registrations each year being overseas doctors, perhaps that shouldn't be surprising. Anti-immigration sentiment is in the news again, but without foreign doctors, New Zealand's healthcare system 'would be more on our knees than we already are' Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-detail-83432/episodes/the-immigrant-doctors-keeping-new-zealand-alive/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432/the-immigrant-doctors-keeping-new-zealand-alive.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.