I’ve had Uber drivers who were doctors back in their home countries. They’re stuck driving Ubers because the US insists that nobody—not British doctors, not Canadian doctors, nobody—can work in the US unless they repeat their last four years of training in an American hospital. American hospitals don’t have many training positions, and reserve the ones they do have for American med students, so most of them can’t do it. Meanwhile, my patients complain of having to wait months to get a desperately-needed appointment, and the hospitals just say “well, there aren’t enough doctors”. There are, they’re just all driving Ubers because of regulatory failure!
Scott mentioned another one recently: