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                           IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

                             OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO



                 M LYNN COBLENTZ, ADMINISTRATRIX

                 OF THE ESTATE OF KELLY ALICIA

                 COBLENTZ, DECEASED,

                             Plaintiff,

                       vs                         Case No

                 EMERGENCY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES,  2002-CV-00430

                 INC, ET AL,

                             Defendant



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                             Deposition of CHARLES EMERMAN, MD,

                 called for examination under the statute, taken

                 before me, Lori Ann Callahan, a Certified

                 Realtime Reporter and Notary Public in and for

                 the State of Ohio, pursuant to notice and

                 stipulations of counsel, at the offices of The

                 Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland,

                 Ohio, on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 2:00

                 o'clock pm

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                 APPEARANCES:



                       On behalf of the Plaintiff:

                             Scanlon & Gearinger Co, LPA, by

                             MARK HILKERT, ESQ

                             1100 First Merit Tower

                             106 S Main Street

                             Akron, Ohio  44308



                       On behalf of the Defendants:

                             Harrington, Hope & Mitchell, by

                             JAMES L BLOMSTROM, ESQ

                             26 Market Street, Suite 1200

                             Youngstown, Ohio  44503



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            1          CHARLES EMERMAN, MD, of lawful age,

            2    called for examination, as provided by the Ohio

            3    Rules of Civil Procedure, being by me first

            4    duly sworn, as hereinafter certified, deposed

            5    and said as follows:

            6          EXAMINATION OF CHARLES EMERMAN, MD

            7    BY MR HILKERT:

            8          Q    Doctor, my name is Mark Hilkert

            9    I'm the attorney for the Coblentz family

           10    You've been identified as an expert witness on     13:57:02

           11    behalf of the defendants, and I would like to

           12    ask you some questions regarding the opinion or

           13    opinions I saw expressed in your letter

           14                If I ask you a question that's not

           15    clear or doesn't make sense, will you tell me      13:57:13

           16    that and I will try to rephrase it for you?

           17          A    Yes

           18                THE WITNESS:   Do you have a copy

           19    of my letter by the way?  I don't have that

           20    with me                                           13:57:21

           21                MR BLOMSTROM:  Well, we will see

           22    BY MR HILKERT:

           23          Q    Doctor, you are an emergency room

           24    specialist; is that correct?

           25          A    I am an emergency room physician,      14:02:23

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            1    yes

            2          Q    Have you ever practiced in an area

            3    of emergency room medicine?

            4          A    No, I have not

            5          Q    I have a curriculum vitae and so I     14:02:31

            6    don't need chapter-inversed, but can you

            7    briefly describe for me what your background

            8    has been until today from the time you

            9    graduated from medical school?

           10          A    Certainly  I did first an             14:02:43

           11    internship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit,

           12    Michigan, and then a residency in emergency

           13    medicine  I completed that in 1982  After

           14    that, I came to Cleveland to Metrohealth

           15    Medical Center, which I joined at that time and    14:02:57

           16    I have been at Metrohealth since 1982 and at

           17    The Cleveland Clinic since 1996

           18          Q    And from '82 to '96, were you an

           19    emergency room physician at the Metrohealth

           20    Center?                                            14:03:14

           21          A    Metrohealth Medical Cen