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                                IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
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                          FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
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                                    CIVIL TRIAL DIVISION
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                  RICKI PLASKOW, AS EXECUTRIX : JUNE TERM, 1998
         6        OF THE ESTATE OF RUSSELL    :
                  PLASKOW AND IN HER OWN RIGHT:
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                            VS               :
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                  MARY TOBIN, MD            : NO 3029
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                           TESTIMONY OF SEEMANT CHATURVEDI, MD
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                                     NOVEMBER 15, 2001
        13                        COURTROOM 253, CITY HALL
                                 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
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                  BEFORE:  HONORABLE VICTOR J DI NUBILE
        16                 AND A JURY

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         2        APPEARANCES:

         3                     WILLIAMS & CUKER
                               BY:  MARK R CUKER, ESQUIRE
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                               NAULTY, SCARICAMAZZA & MC DEVITT
         6                     BY:  ROBERT E DILLON, ESQUIRE
                               FOR THE DEFENDANT
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                               GEORGE D'ANGELIS, RPR
         9                     OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
                               COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
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                   DR SEEMANT CHATURVEDI  10       14       105       111
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         2                         MORNING_SESSION
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         4                     (THE FOLLOWING TRANSPIRED IN OPEN

         5               COURT, OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY:)

         6                           MR CUKER:  WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO

         7               IS MAKE AN OFFER OF PROOF AND GET A RULING

         8               ON AN OBJECTION IN ADVANCE  DR

         9               CHATURVEDI, IN HIS REPORT DESCRIBES WHAT

        10               WAS FOUND IN AN ANGIOGRAM STUDY DONE ON MR

        11               PLASKOW IN JULY, 1996  HE REVIEWED THE

        12               REPORTS OF THE ANGIOGRAM STUDY AND HE

        13               ACTUALLY DESCRIBES WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE

        14               STUDY  WHEN HE TESTIFIES BEFORE THE JURY,

        15               WE WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE TO USE PHOTOGRAPHS

        16               OF THE STUDY SIMPLY TO ILLUSTRATE AND

        17               DEMONSTRATE WHAT IT IS HE IS TALKING ABOUT

        18                           THE COURT:  THESE EXHIBITS,

        19               WHAT ARE THEY?

        20                           MR CUKER:  PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE

        21               ACTUAL ANGIOGRAM FILMS

        22                           THE COURT:  OF MR PLASKOW?

        23                           MR CUKER:  MR PLASKOW  IN

        24               JULY, 1996  THIS WILL NOT IN ANY WAY
 
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         1               DEVIATE FROM ANYTHING IN HIS REPORT  THE

         2               REPORT DESCRIBES IT  AND THIS IS REALLY A

         3               DEMONSTRATIVE EXHIBIT TO SHOW TO THE JURY

         4               IN PICTURE FORM WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT

         5                           MR DILLON:  YOUR HONOR, I HAVE

         6               A COPY OF TWO OF HIS REPORTS, NE