Doctors in the US earn twice as much as the OECD average. Dean Baker talks a lot about how during the era of &#x27;globalization&#x27; manufacturing workers were pitted against low-wage third world workers while doctors were shielded from similar competition by professional organizations and barriers to entry by immigration law. Basically, doctors in the US have lots of ways to control the supply of doctors, so their wages are unsurprisingly elevated above the international norm.