But this shift has also raised some secondary questions, most prominently about the best way to pay outside help.

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But medical devices have traditionally been scrutinized less by regulators, and medical device makers, particularly in orthopedics and surgery, pay outside researchers far more than drug companies.

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For this reason, many authors pay for outside editing even before submitting material to agents.

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