2 IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

3 CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO

4 Case No. 179856

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CAITLIN ANN PEARSTON, et al.,
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Plaintiffs,
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- against -
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SAINT JOHN & WEST SHORE HOSPITAL, et al.,
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Defendants.
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May 6, 1993
11 3:00 p.m.

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15 Videotape deposition of THOMAS
KERENYI, M.D., taken by the Parties,
16 pursuant to Agreement, held at the Embassy
Suites Hotel, 1568 Broadway, New York, New
17 York, before Peter Brody, a Shorthand
Reporter and Notary Public of the State of
18 New York.

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23  NEWROCK/DESIMONE
THE COURT REPORTERS
24 15 Park Row
New York, New York 10038
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2 A P P E A R A N C E S

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4 WEISMAN, GOLDBERG & WEISMAN CO., L.P.A
1600 Midland Building
5 Landmark office Towers
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
6 Attorneys for Plaintiffs
BY: FRED WEISMAN, ESQ.
7 LAWRENCE J. POWERS, ESQ.

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9 REMINGER & REMINGER CO., L.P.A.
The 113 St. Clair Building
10 Seventh Floor
Cleveland, Ohio 41144
11 Attorneys for Defendant
Saint John & West Shore Hospital
12 BY: LESLIE SPISAK, ESQ.

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14 JACOBSON, MAYNARD,
TUSCHMAN & KALUR CO., L.P.A.
is 1001 Lakeside Avenue
Suite 1600
16 Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1192
Attorneys for Defendants
17 A. E. Bacevice, M.D.
Kevin E. Wisler, M.D.
18 BY: JEROME S. KALUR, ESQ.

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2 MR. STASIW: Good afternoon,
3 gentlemen. This is the videotaped
4 testimony of Dr. Thomas Kerenyi in the
5 case of Caitlin Ann Pearston, et al.,
6 versus Saint John & West shore Hospital,
7 et al., in the Court of Common Pleas of
8 Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
9 My name is Andrew Stasiw, I'm a
10 legal videographer with Video Portfolios
11 Productions located at 12 West 27th
12 Street, in Manhattan, New York.
13 The deposition is taking place
14 at Embassy Suites Hotel in New York,
15 New York. Presently the time is 3:00
16 o'clock. We are on the record. And I'll
17 ask counsel to introduce themselves. We
18 can start with the plaintiff.
19 MR. WEISMAN: Yes, I'm Fred
20 Weisman. I represent the estate and the
21 parents of Caitlin Pearston; that's Dale
22 and Patricia Pearston.
23 And my associate Lawrence Powers
24 is in company with me here for the
25 plaintiffs.
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2 MR. SPISAK: And I'm Les Spisak
3 and I represent Saint John & West Shore
4 Hospital .
5 MR. KALUR: Jerome Kalur and I
6 represent Dr. Anthony Bacevice.
7 MR. STASIW: At this point,
8 gentlemen, we're on the record and I'll
9 ask the court reporter to swear in the
10 w i t n e s s .
11 T H 0 M A S K E R E N Y I,
12 called as a witness, having been first
13 duly sworn, was examined and testified
14 as follows:
15 MR. WEISMAN: Let the record
16 show, please, that this deposition is
17 taken for the purpose of establishing
18 evidence forthcoming from Dr. Kerenyi
19 to be presented in the courthouse in
20 Cleveland, Ohio in the trial of this
21 lawsuit .
22 EXAMINATION BY MR. WEISMAN:
23 Q. Doctor, would you please state
24 for the record your name and your address?
25 A. My name is Thomas Kerenyi,
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1 KERENYI
2 K-E-R-E-N-Y-I, and my address is 1126 Park
3 Avenue, New York, New York.
4 Q. What is your profession, Doctor?
5 A. I'm a physician.
6 Q. Doctor, what's your specialty in
7 the medical field?
8 A. I'm an obstetrician and
9 gynecologist.
10 Q- How long have you been engaged
11 in the field of obstetrics, please?
12 A. I graduated from medical school
13 in 1960, and I started my residency in
14 161.  Between that, I took a year of
15 rotating internship.
1 6 Q - Okay?
17 A. And I took four years of
18 training in obstetrics and gynecology.
19 Q- All right. So all and all,
20 since 1961, that's over 30 years --
21 A. Correct.
22 Q. -- concentration in the field of
23 obstetrics, correct?
24 A. That's correct.
25 Q. of what does the field of
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1 KERENYI
2 obstetrics deal, just by definition,
3 p 1 e a s e ?
4 A. Obstetrics is with pregnancy,
5 primarily; gynecology with women in a
6 non-pregnant state.
7 Q. Where were you born and raised,
8 p 1 e a s e ?
9 A. I was born in Szeged,
10 S-Z-E-G-E-D, Hungary.  I left after the
11 revolution in 1956, and went to medical
12 school here in New York at Cornell
13 University Medical School.
14 Q. Are you an United States
1 5 c i t i z e n ?
16 A. I was, five years after my
1 7 arrival .
18 Q. Okay. Tell us, essentially,
19 what your postgraduate training consisted
20 of, please.
21 A. As I mentioned, after graduation
22 from Cornell in 1960, one year of rotating
23 internship to '61.
24 From '61 to 65, residency in
25 obstetrics and gynecology.
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1 KERENYI
2 And I joined the Public Health
3 Service for a year-and-a-half, which took
4 me to St. Louis in Missouri one 6-months
5 period in Brazil -- Bahia, Brazil -- and
6 then Lo Heidelberg, Germany.
7 In 1967, I returned to Mount
8 Sinai, which then just became a medical
9 school, and got a position in the -- on
10 the sta