dr. susanna dobson and you mentioned earlier the business of medical writing, putting your name on something that a pharmaceutical company would write. [video clip] dr. dobson: there are two different kinds of medical writing. there are regulatory writers people putting together documents for fda and other regulatory agencies and also publications, medical writers. we have certificates in both. medical writers work directly for drug companies or they work for contract research organizations. which are companies hired by drug companies to put together applications for new drugs. whether you are hired directly by a drug company or by a contract research organization you are hired by the pharmaceutical industry. brian: anything wrong with that? dr. fugh-berman: these medical writers, and it's funny, many of them are women. the work either for medical education companies or directly for pharmaceutical companies. sometimes they are writing up clinical trial reports. but, what is more insidious is that they are involved in writing reviews and commentaries and letters to the editor. this is a way t