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Donald W. Light
Researcher at Rowan University
Publications - 131
Citations - 4825
Donald W. Light is an academic researcher from Rowan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Competition (economics). The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 131 publications receiving 4580 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald W. Light include University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & University of Cambridge.
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Professional dynamics and the changing nature of medical work.
TL;DR: The nature of medical work is examined and how this work impacts on and is impacted by medicine's own internal differentiation and the presence of contested domains at medicine's periphery to examine the nature of professional dynamics in a changing environment.
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Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money?
Donald W. Light,Joel Lexchin +1 more
TL;DR: Data indicate that the widely touted “innovation crisis” in pharmaceuticals is a myth, and current incentives that reward companies for developing large numbers of new drugs with few clinical advantages over existing ones are a myth.
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Demythologizing the high costs of pharmaceutical research
Donald W. Light,Donald W. Light,Rebecca N. Warburton,Rebecca N. Warburton,Rebecca N. Warburton +4 more
TL;DR: This article takes apart the most detailed and authoritative study of R&D costs in order to show how high estimates have been constructed by industry-supported economists, and to showHow much lower actual costs may be.
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Uncertainty and Professional Work: Perceptions of Physicians in Clinical Practice
TL;DR: The first rigorously developed measures of uncertainty administered to a large sample of practicing physicians are reported, and physicians in this study readily acknowledged uncertainty in a number of areas.