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Recently, our profession has been subject to an unprecedented amount of
scrutiny in the lay press concerning our professional ethics, specifically
with regard to our relationship with the orthopaedic industrial sector. On
March 31, 2005, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today,
and other newspapers ran major stories on the United States Department of
Justice's subpoenas to several large orthopaedic device manufacturers
concerning their relationships with orthopaedic
surgeons1-3.