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EXHIBIT 10.4
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                          BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

                                 INTENT TO GRANT

                       DEFERRED STOCK UNIT AWARD AGREEMENT

         This Agreement, dated as of the ___ day of ________, 200[ ] (the "Grant
Date"), is between Boston Scientific Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), and the person whose name appears on the Signature Page of this
Agreement (the "Participant"), an employee of the Company or any of its
affiliates or subsidiaries. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Company's Long-Term Incentive
Plan set forth on the Signature Page of this Agreement (the "Plan").

         THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE SIGNED BY THE PARTICIPANT AND RETURNED TO THE
STOCK AWARD ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF THE COMPANY AT LEAST SIX (6) MONTHS
PRIOR TO THE FIRST INTENDED ISSUE DATE DESCRIBED HEREIN IN ORDER TO BE
EFFECTIVE.

         1. Grant and Acceptance of Award. The Company hereby indicates its
intent to award to the Participant that number of Deferred Stock Units set forth
on the Signature Page of this Agreement (the "Unit"), each Unit representing the
Company's commitment to issue to Participant one share of the Company's common
stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Stock"), subject to certain eligibility
and other conditions set forth herein. The award is intended to be granted
pursuant to and is subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the
provisions of the Plan.

         2. Eligibility Conditions upon Award of Units. Participant hereby
acknowledges the intent of the Company to award Units subject to certain
eligibility and other conditions set forth herein.

         3. Satisfaction of Conditions. Except as otherwise provided in Section
5 hereof (relating to death of the Participant), Section 6 hereof (relating to
Retirement or Disability of the Participant) and Section 8 hereof (relating to
Change in Control of the Company), the Company intends to award shares of Stock
hereunder subject to the eligibility conditions described in Section 7 hereof in
approximately equal annual installments on each of four anniversaries of the
date first set forth above, beginning on the second anniversary of the date of
grant. No shares of Stock shall be issued to Participant prior to the date on
which the Units vest.

         4. Participant's Rights in Stock. The shares of Stock if and when
issued hereunder shall be registered in the name of the Participant and
evidenced in the manner as the Company may determine. During the period prior to
the issuance of Stock, the
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Participant will have no rights of a stockholder of the Company with respect to
the Stock, including no right to receive dividends or vote the shares of Stock.

         5. Death. Upon the death of the Participant while employed by the
Company and its affiliates or subsidiaries, the Company will issue to the
Participant or beneficiary of the Participant as set forth under the provisions
of the Company's program of life insurance for employees, any shares of Stock to
Participant to be awarded hereunder that remain subject to eligibility
conditions.

         6. Retirement or Disability. In the event of the Participant's
Retirement or Disability, the Company will issue to Participant any shares of
Stock to be awarded hereunder that remain subject to eligibility conditions.

         7. Other Termination of Employment -- Eligibility Conditions. If the
employment of the Participant with the Company and its affiliates or
subsidiaries is terminated or Participant separates from the Company and its
affiliates or subsidiaries for any reason other than death, Retirement or
Disability, any Units that remain subject to eligibility conditions shall be
void and no Stock shall be issued. Eligibility to be issued shares of Stock is
conditioned on Participant's continuous employment with the Company through and
on the applicable anniversary of the date as set forth in Section 3 above.

         8. Change in Control of the Company. In the event of a Change in
Control of the Company, the Company will issue to Participant any shares of
Stock to be awarded hereunder that remain subject to eligibility conditions.

         9. Consideration for Stock. The shares of Stock are intended to be
issued for no cash consideration.

         10. Delivery of Stock. The Company shall not be obligated to deliver
any shares of Stock to be awarded hereunder until (i) all federal and state laws
and regulations as the Company may deem applicable have been complied with; (ii)
the shares have been listed or authorized for listing upon official notice to
the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. or have otherwise been accorded trading
privileges; and (iii) all other legal matters in connection with the issuance
and delivery of the shares have been approved by the Company's legal department.

         11. Tax Withholding. The Participant shall be responsible for the
payment of any taxes of any kind required by any national or local law to be
paid with respect to the Units or the shares of Stock to be awarded hereunder,
including, without limitation, the payment of any applicable withholding,
income, social and similar taxes or obligations. Except as otherwise provided in
this Section, upon the issuance of Stock or the satisfaction of any eligibility
condition with respect to the Stock to be issued hereunder, the Company shall
hold back from the total number of shares of Stock to be delivered to
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the Participant, and shall cause to be transferred to the Company, whole shares
of Stock having a Fair Market Value on the date the shares are subject to
issuance an amount as nearly as possible equal to (rounded to the next whole
share) the Company's withholding, income, social and similar tax obligations
with respect to the Stock. To the extent of the Fair Market Value of the
withheld shares, Participant shall be deemed to have satisfied Participant's
responsibility under this Section 11 to pay these obligations. The Participant
shall satisfy Participant's responsibility to pay any other withholding, income,
social or similar tax obligations with respect to the Stock, and (subject to
such rules as the Committee may prescribe) may satisfy Participant's
responsibility to pay the tax obligations described in the immediately preceding
sentence, by so indicating to the Company in writing at least thirty (30) days
prior to the date the shares of Stock are subject to issuance and paying the
amount of these tax obligations in cash to the Company within ten (10) business
days following the date the Units vest or by making other arrangements
satisfactory to the Committee for payment of these obligations. In no event
shall whole shares be withheld by or delivered to the Company in satisfaction of
tax withholding requirements in excess of the maximum statutory tax withholding
required by law. The Participant agrees to indemnify the Company against any and
all liabilities, damages, costs and expenses that the Company may hereafter
incur, suffer or be required to pay with respect to the payment or withholding
of any taxes. The obligations of the Company under this Agreement and the Plan
shall be conditional upon such payment or arrangements, and the Company shall,
to the extent permitted by law, have the right to deduct any such taxes from any
payment of any kind otherwise due to the Participant.

         12. Investment Intent. The Participant acknowledges that the
acquisition of the Stock to be issued hereunder is for investment purposes
without a view to distribution thereof.

         13. Limits on Transferability. Until the eligibility conditions of this
award have been satisfied and shares of Stock have been issued in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement or by action of the Committee, the Units
awarded hereunder are not transferable and shall not be sold, transferred,
assigned, pledged, gifted, hypothecated or otherwise disposed of or encumbered
by the Participant. Transfers of shares of Stock by the Participant are subject
to the Company's Stock Trading Policy.

         14. Award Subject to the Plan. The award to be made pursuant to this
Agreement is made subject to the Plan. The terms and provisions of the Plan as
it may be amended from time to time are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
In the event of a conflict between any term or provision contained in this
Agreement and a term or provision of the Plan, the applicable terms and
conditions of the Plan will govern and prevail. However, no amendment of the
Plan after the date hereof may adversely alter or impair the issuance of the
Stock to be made pursuant to this Agreement.

         15. No Rights to Continued Employment. The Company's intent to grant
the shares of Stock hereunder shall not confer upon the Participant any right to
continued
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employment or other association with the Company or any of its affiliates or
subsidiaries; and this Agreement shall not be construed in any way to limit the
right of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates to terminate the
employment or other association of the Participant with the Company or to change
the terms of such employment or association at any time.

         16. Legal Notices. Any legal notice necessary under this Agreement
shall be addressed to the Company in care of its General Counsel at the
principle executive offices of the Company and to the Participant at the address
appearing in the personnel records of the Company for such Participant or to
either party at such other address as either party may designate in writing to
the other. Any such notice shall be deemed effective upon receipt thereof by the
addressee.

         17. Governing Law. The interpretation, performance and enforcement of
this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts (without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof) and
applicable federal laws.

         18. Headings. The headings contained in this Agreement are for
convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of this
Agreement.

         19. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which
together shall be deemed to the one and the same instrument.
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                                 SIGNATURE PAGE

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company, by its duly authorized officer, and
the Participant have executed and delivered this Agreement as a sealed
instrument as of the date and year first above written.

PLAN: 2003 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
Number of Deferred Stock Units:  [    ]

Issuance Schedule
25%      Date of Second Anniversary
25%      Date of Third Anniversary
25%      Date of Fourth Anniversary
25%      Date of Fifth Anniversary

                                            BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

                                            By:_________________________________
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

                                            PARTICIPANT

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                                            [Name]EXHIBIT 10.5
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                          BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

                          [ ] LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

                      NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT

                                      DATE

                                  PREPARED FOR:

                                      NAME
                             [Non-Employee Director]
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This Agreement is entered into by and between Boston Scientific Corporation (the
"Corporation") and the person whose name appears on the signature page hereof
(the "Optionee") effective as of the [ ] day of ________, 200[ ]. This Agreement
is made pursuant to the Boston Scientific Corporation 2000 Long-Term Incentive
Plan, as amended (the "Plan"), which is administered by the Committee.

Capitalized terms not defined in this Agreement have the same meanings specified
in the Plan.

I.       GRANT OF OPTION

The Corporation hereby grants to the Optionee a Non-Qualified Stock Option (the
"Option") to purchase that number of shares of common stock of the Corporation
set forth on the signature page hereof (the "Option Shares") at the price set
forth on the signature page hereof (the "Exercise Price").

II.      TERM AND VESTING OF OPTION

Except as otherwise provided in Section IV, the Option shall have a term of ten
(10) years from [date of grant ] until [ten years from date of grant] and shall
vest in accordance with the vesting schedule set forth on the signature page
hereof.

III.     EXERCISE OF OPTION

While this Option remains exercisable, the Optionee may exercise a vested
portion of the Option by delivering to the Corporation or its designee in the
form and at the location specified by the Corporation, notice stating the
Optionee's intent to exercise a specified number of shares subject to the Option
and payment of the full Exercise Price for the specified number of shares. The
payment for the full Exercise Price for the shares exercised must be made in (i)
cash, (ii) by certified check or bank draft payable in U.S. dollars ($US) to the
order of the Corporation, (iii) in whole or in part in Common Stock of the
Corporation owned by the Optionee, valued at Fair Market Value or (iv) if
available to the Optionee, by "cashless exercise", by the Optionee delivering to
his/her securities broker instructions to sell a sufficient number of shares of
Common Stock to cover the Exercise Price, applicable tax obligations and the
brokerage fees and expenses associated therewith.

Shares of Common Stock of the Corporation used for payment, in whole or part, of
the Exercise Price must have been owned by the Optionee, free and clear of all
liens or encumbrances for a period of at least six (6) months prior to the
exercise date. In addition, the Committee may impose such other or different
requirements as it may deem necessary to avoid charges to earnings of the
Corporation.

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The exercise date for the Optionee's exercise of all or a specified portion of
the Option pursuant to this Section III will be deemed to be the date on which
the Corporation receives the irrevocable commitment from the Optionee to
exercise the Option Shares in the form of notice of exercise specified by the
Corporation, subject to Optionee's payment in full for the Option Shares to be
exercised. Notice of exercise of all portions of the Option being exercised
along with payment in full of the Exercise Price for such portion must be
received by the Corporation or its designee on or prior to the last day of the
Option term, as set forth in Section II above, except as provided in Section IV
below.

Upon the Corporation's determination that there has been a valid exercise of the
Option, the Corporation shall issue certificates in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement, or cause the Corporation's transfer agent to make the necessary
book entries, for the shares subject to the exercised portion of the Option.
However, the Corporation shall not be liable to the Optionee, the Optionee's
personal representative, or the Optionee's successor(s)-in-interest for damages
relating to any delays in issuing the certificates or in making book entries,
any loss of the certificates, or any mistakes or errors in the issuance of the
certificates or in making book entries, or in the certificates themselves.

IV.      TERMINATION OF SERVICE

Upon the date an Optionee ceases to be a member of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation for reasons of Retirement, death or Disability, all remaining
unexercised portion(s) of the Option shall immediately vest and become
exercisable by the Optionee or the Optionee's appointed representative, as the
case may be, until the expiration of term of the Option, or such other term as
the Committee may determine at or after grant.

If the Optionee ceases to be a member of the Board for any other reason than
Retirement, death or Disability, the Optionee shall have the shorter of (i)
twelve (12) months from the date of departure or (ii) the remaining term of the
Option, to exercise all vested, unexercised portion(s) of the Option. Upon
cessation of the Optionee's membership on the Board for reasons other than for
those set forth above, all non-vested unexercised portions of the Option shall
lapse; provided that the Committee, in its sole discretion, may extend the
exercise period and/or accelerate vesting of unvested portions of the Option
provided that such exercise period does not extend beyond the original term of
the Option and no portion of the Option shall become vested earlier than six (6)
months from the date of grant.

The Option, to the extent unexercised on the date following the end of any
period described above or the Option term set forth above in Section II, shall
thereupon lapse and be forfeited.

Any permitted transferee (pursuant to Section VIII below) of the Optionee shall
receive the rights herein granted subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement. No transfer of this Option shall be approved and effected by the
Corporation unless (i) the Corporation shall have been timely furnished with
written notice of such transfer and any copies of such notice as the Committee
may deem, in its sole discretion, necessary to establish the validity

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of the transfer; (ii) the transferee or transferees shall have agreed in writing
to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement; and (iii) such
transfer complies with applicable laws and regulations.

V.       NO RIGHTS TO CONTINUED MEMBERSHIP

The Option grant made under the Plan and this Agreement shall not confer on the
Optionee any right to continued membership on the Board of Directors.

VI.      CHANGE IN CONTROL

All unvested portions of the Option shall vest in the event of a Change in
Control (as defined in the Plan), immediately prior to the effective date of the
Change in Control and in the case of a Covered Transaction (as defined in the
Plan), at least ten (10) days prior to the effective date of a Covered
Transaction. This Option shall terminate immediately prior to the Covered
Transaction unless the Committee provides, at its discretion, for the
substitution or assumption of the Option, by conversion into an option to
acquire securities of equivalent kind and value of the surviving entity as of
the effective date of the Covered Transaction.

VII.     LEGEND ON CERTIFICATE

The certificates representing the shares received by the Optionee pursuant to
the exercise of the Option may be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend
in such form as the Corporation or its counsel may require with respect to any
applicable restrictions on sale or transfer and the stock transfer records of
the Corporation may reflect stop-transfer instructions with respect to such
shares.

VIII.    TRANSFERABILITY

Except as required by law, the Option granted under this Agreement is not
transferable and shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged, gifted,
hypothecated or otherwise disposed of by the Optionee other than by will or the
laws of descent and distribution or without payment of consideration to Family
Members of the Optionee or to trusts or other entities for the benefit of
immediate family members of the Optionee. During the Optionee's lifetime, the
Option is exercisable only by the Optionee, except as provided in Section IV
above.

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IX.      SATISFACTION OF TAX OBLIGATIONS

The Optionee agrees to make appropriate arrangements with the Corporation for
satisfaction of any applicable federal, state or local income tax, withholding
requirements or like requirements, including the payment to the Corporation at
the time of exercise of the Option of all such taxes and requirements.

X.       SECURITIES LAWS

Upon the acquisition of any shares pursuant to the exercise of the Option,
Optionee will make or enter into such written representations, warranties and
agreements as the Corporation may reasonably request in order to comply with
applicable securities laws, or with the Plan.

XI.      LEGAL NOTICES

Any legal notice necessary under this Agreement shall be addressed to the
Corporation in care of its Secretary at the principal executive office of the
Corporation and to the Optionee at the address appearing in the personnel
records of the Corporation for such Optionee or to either party at such other
address as either party may designate in writing to the other. Any such notice
shall be deemed effective upon receipt thereof by the addressee.

XII.     CHOICE OF LAW

The interpretation, performance and enforcement of this Agreement shall be
governed by the laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (without regard to the
conflicts of laws principles) and applicable federal laws.

XIII.    CONFLICTS

The Option granted by this Agreement is subject to the Plan. The terms and
provisions of the Plan as it may be amended from time to time are hereby
incorporated herein by reference. This Agreement contains terms and provisions
established by the Committee specifically for the grant described herein. Unless
the Committee has been authorized under the Plan to establish specific terms of
an option grant, the terms of the Plan shall govern. The Committee retains the
right to alter or modify the Option granted under this Agreement as the
Committee may determine as in the best interests of the Company.

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XIV.     HEADINGS

The headings contained in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not
affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

XV.      COUNTERPARTS

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which
shall be deemed to be an original and all of which together shall be deemed to
be one and the same instrument.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation, by its duly authorized officer, and the
Optionee have executed and delivered to the Agreement effective as of the date
and year first above written.

Option Shares:    # of shares

Exercise Price:   FMV (Date of Grant)

Vesting Schedule:

             Percent of Option      Shares Vesting            Date Vested
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                  33 1/3%                                 [First Anniversary]
                  33 1/3%                                 [Second Anniversary]
                  33 1/3%                                 [Third Anniversary]

                                            OPTIONEE

                                            Signature:
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                                            Name

                                            BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

                                            Signature:
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                                            Name
                                            Title

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