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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY ALABAMA


ASHLEY MICHELE FLOWERS CIVIL ACTION
WILLIAM C. FLOWERS, ET AL
Plaintiffs

VS.

BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER-
MONTCLAIR, ET AL
Defendants NO. -79-3839


Upland, Pennsylvania
October 21, 1982


Deposition of MARSHALL KLAVAN, M.D., held

in the offices of MARSHALL KLAVAN, M.D., CROZER-

CHESTER MEDICAL CENTER, at 1:30 p.m. on the above

date, before Barbara.Donatelli, a Registered

Professional Reporter.


APPEARANCES:

HUIE, FERNAMBURG AND STEWART
BY: WILLIAM B. FERNAMBURG, ESQUIRE
Suite 825 First Alabama Bank Building
Birmingham, Alabama 35203



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1 MR. HARPER: Thank you, Doctor. I have no
2 further questions.
3 (The deposition is concluded at 5:10 p.m.)
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5 all copie's of the transcript of this deposition
6 and original Exhibits marked at deposition are
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3 MARSHALL KLAVAN, M.D.

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I APPEARANCES (Cont'd):

2 DONALD LUSK, ESQUIRE
725 First Alabama Bank Building
3 Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Attorneys for Defendant Dr. Robert Barnett
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EMOND AND.VINES
5 BY: CLIFFORD EMOND, JR., ESQUIRE
1800 City Federal Building
6 Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Attorney for Plaintiffs
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PORTERFIELD, SCHOLL, BAINBRIDGE, MIMS,
8 CLARK AND HARPER, P.A.
BY: LARRY W. HARPER, ESQUIRE
9 2 Office Park Circle
Birmingham, Alabama 35223
10 Attorney for Baptist Medical Center, et al

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1 (it is stipulated by and among counsel

2 for the respective parties that sealing,

3 signing, certification and filing are waived,

4 and that all objections, except as to the

5 form of the questions, are reserved to the

6 time of trial.)

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8 MARSHALL KLAVAN, M.D., having been

9 first duly sworn, was examined and testified

10 as follows:

11 EXAMINATION BY

12 MR. FERNAMBURG:

13 O. Doctor, would you state your full name, please?

14 A. Marshall Klavan, M.D.

15 Q. And what is your address?

16 A. My professional address is Suite 203 in the

17 Professional Building, Crozer-Chester medical Center,

18 Upland, Pennsylvania, 19103.

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QL How long have you been practicing medicine?

20 A. As a practitioner in obstetrics -- I was

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licensed shortly After I graduated from medical

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school, which was in 1957.  As a practitioner I

23 have been practicing since 1962, which includes two

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years in the service.

M. Klavan
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Do you have a specialty, Doctor?


2 X Yes.


3 What is that specialty?


4 X Obstetrics and gynecology.


5 OL Are you Board certified?


6 A. Yes, sir.


7 How long have you been practicing your


8 specialty?


9 A. Since 1964.


10 O. Do you have a specialty within your specialty?


11 A. No, I do not.


12 QL And your practice as a OB-GYN is what you


13 would expect other OB-GYNs to do in that typo of


14 work. Is that correct?


15 A. Yes.


16 OL And you have no specialty within that specialty


17 L That's correct.


18 QL Can you tell us something about your medical


19 background, not in great detail, but just briefly?


20 L Well, I attended the University of Virginia


21 from 1950 through,.1953. Then I went to the Medical


22 College of Virginia from 1953 to 1957.


23 I then I had a year of internship


24 and four years of residency training at Sinai

M. Klavan PAGE--L-

I Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in obstetrics and
2 gynecology.
3 Following this, I was in the military
4 service, in the United States Army, for two years
5 in Germany doing obstetrics and gynecology.
6 Following that I entered the practice
7 of medicine in the Philadelphia area.
8 I have been involved academically
9 with a couple of medical schools in the Philadelphia
10 area. I was an instructor at the Medical College
11 of Pennsylvania when I entered practice here. In
12 1967 1 was appointed Assistant Professor at the
13 Hahnemann Medical College where I was involved in
14 the training of residents and medical students as
15 well as private practice.
16 I was elevated to the title of
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and appointed
18 to the Hahnemann staff in 1970.
19 During the time I was at Hahnemann,
20 1 was Administrativg-Chie-f in the Obst