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2 SHEENA TERRY, etc,
3 Plaintiff
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5 KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH CASE NO 193206
6 PLAN OF OHIO JUDGE CARL J CHARACTER
7 Defendants
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9 Deposition of STUART CHARLES EDELBERG, MD, was
10 taken on November 12, 1992, commencing at 6:30 pm at
11 the Hampton Inn, 829 Elkridge Landing Road, Suite 520,
12 Linthicum, Maryland, before Sharon Mech, Notary Public
13 APPEARANCES:
14 RICHARD BERRIS, ESQ
15 On behalf of the Plaintiff
16 DON SWITZER, ESQ
17 on behalf of the Defendants
18 REPORTED BY:
19 SHARON MECH
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1 STIPULATIONS
2 It is stipulated and agreed by and between
3 counsel for the respective parties that the reading and
4 signing of this deposition is hereby waived
5 It is further stipulated and agreed that the
6 filing of this deposition with the Clerk of the Court is
7 hereby waived
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9 STUART CHARLES EDELBERG, MD,
10 after first having been duly sworn to tell the truth, the
11 whole truth and nothing but the truth, was examined and
12 testified as follows:
13 THE WITNESS: Stuart Charles Edelberg, Sinai
14 Hospital, Baltimore, 2401 West Belvedere Avenue,
15 Baltimore, Maryland 21215
16 EXAMINATION BY MR SWITZER:
17 Q: My name is Don Switzer I represent all the
18 Defendants in this case, and I can tell you who they are,
19 just a bunch of Kaiser entities I received a copy of
20 your Curriculum Vitae, and let me hand you the copy I
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1 A: That has been updated already, I think it
2 was reorganized and there was a new publication
3 Q: Let me take a look at this
4 A: I don't know what year yours is, whether it
5 shows that I have come down to Baltimore
6 Q: Yeah, it shows that
7 A: Well, then, the only addition would be a
8 publication that I did as a poster presentation at a
9 national meeting on research I'm doing
10 Q: Would you give a copy of your updated one
11 A: You can have that
12 Q: Have you published any articles or
13 literature on perinatal asphyxia?
14 A: Not on asphyxia, per se
15 Q, Have you published any articles or any
16 literature on cerebral palsy?
17 A: No I have not
18 Q: Now, you're not a neonatologist, are you?
19 A: No, I'm not
20 Q: Not a pediatrician?
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1 Q: Do you consider pediatric care to be out of
2 your area of expertise?
3 A: The care, per se Obviously, I have a good
4 deal of knowledge of the area only because of my training
5 and the position I'm in, where we discuss a lot of
6 pediatric care in the neonatal period
7 Q: Do you consider pediatric neurology to be
8 out of your area of expertise?
9 A: That is technically out of my area of
10 expertise, although I have a fair amount of knowledge of
11 how newborns behave from the conferences we have
12 Q: You are Board certified in OB?
13 A: That's correct
14 Q: And are you Board certified in maternal
15 fetal medicine?
16 A: No, I'm not
17 Q: Did you ever take the Boards?
18 A: I took the Boards without a case list I
19 passed the written I took the orals without a case list
20 and did not pass
21 Q: You were at Metropolitan?

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1 A: Correct
2 Q: I see When did you come to Baltimore?
3 A: I was there from '83 to '90, I believe
4 Q: okay
5 A: I have been here for three years now
6 Q: Why did you leave Metropolitan Medical
7 Center?
8 A: Sinai of Baltimore made me an unbelievable
9 offer which I couldn't turn down It put me into a
10 commuting marriage again, the offer to come down here and
11 run a residency program
12 Q: I know you've had some experience in
13 reviewing medical/legal matters over the years, even
14 though you and I have never met before
15 A: Yes, I have
16 Q: would it be fair to say that you've reviewed
17 hundreds of medical/legal cases?
18 A: Yes, that's a fair statement
19 Q: It's surprising I haven't run into you
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