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Released: July 04, 2010

The hard work falls to the regulators

Source: Ezra Klein, Washington Post (Free Registration)

Robert Temple doesn’t look obscenely rich. He’s got big glasses and a thick walrus mustache. He does not wear bling. And the fact of the matter is that Robert Temple is not obscenely rich. But he could have been.

Temple is a professional regulator—to be specific, the director of the Office of Medical Policy at the Food and Drug Administration. He’s been called “an FDA icon.” Dan Carpenter, author of the FDA history “Reputation and Power,” says Temple “designed most of the modern clinical trial regulations.

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