IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

                          FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

                                    CIVIL TRIAL DIVISION

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                  STEPHEN RESNICK                :  AUGUST TERM, 1990

                        VS.

                  HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL,
                  ET AL.                         :  NO. 3841

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                                  COURTROOM 633, CITY HALL
                                 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

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                                     AFTERNOON SESSION

                                        JULY 14, 1997

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                  BEFORE:  HONORABLE SANDRA MAZER MOSS, J.

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                       GEORGE D'ANGELIS, RPR, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
                                1321 ARCH STREET - SUITE 302
                                  PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19107
                                       (215) 686-4240
 






                  APPEARANCES:




                               EMIL F. TOFTEN & ASSOCIATES
                               BY:  EMIL F. TOFTEN, ESQUIRE
                               COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFF



                               WHITE & WILLIAMS
                               BY:  PETER SAMSON, ESQUIRE
                               COUNSEL FOR HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
                               AND TERRY CESON, M.D.
 









                                          I N D E X
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                  WITNESSES:

                                     DIRECT  CROSS  REDIRECT  RECROSS

                  DR. MC GUCKIN      5        14       60       62
 
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         2                        AFTERNOON_SESSION
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         4

         5                     (AT 2:30 P.M. THE FOLLOWING TOOK

         6               PLACE IN OPEN COURT, JURY NOT PRESENT:)

         7                           THE COURT:  OKAY.  SHALL WE GET

         8               THE JURORS OUT?

         9                           MR. TOFTEN:  I WANT TO TELL YOU

        10               THAT COUNSEL HAS NO OBJECTION.

        11                           THE COURT:  YOU CAN DO THEM AND

        12               THEN HE WILL DO HIS CROSS.

        13                     (THE FOLLOWING TOOK PLACE IN OPEN

        14               COURT, ALL PARTIES PRESENT:)

        15                           THE COURT:  OKAY.  YOU SEE THE

        16               SLIDE PROJECTOR AND THE SLIDES.  PLAINTIFF

        17               NOW HAS THE SLIDE PROJECTOR FIXED.  SO I'M

        18               GOING TO LET HIM HAVE HIS EXPERT TAKE THE

        19               STAND.  YOU MAY COME FORWARD.  HE WILL GO

        20               OVER HIS SLIDES AND THEN WE WILL START WITH

        21               THE CROSS-EXAMINATION.

        22                           COURT CRIER:  DOCTOR, BEFORE WE

        23               BEGIN, I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU ARE

        24               STILL UNDER OATH.
 
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         1                           THE WITNESS:  DR. MC GUCKIN.

         2                     (THE WITNESS, HAVING BEEN PREVIOUSLY

         3               SWORN, WAS EXAMINED AND TESTIFIED AS

         4               FOLLOWS:)

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         6

         7                            -     -     -

         8                         DIRECT EXAMINATION

         9                            -     -     -

        10        BY MR. TOFTEN:

        11        Q.     DOCTOR, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE JURY, CAN

        12        YOU RELATE TO THESE SLIDES, HOW THEY RELATE TO

        13        YOUR PRIOR TESTIMONY?

        14        A.     WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS NOW VISIBLY SHOW

        15        YOU SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE VERBALLY WENT OVER

        16        AND THAT WILL GIVE YOU A CLEAR IDEA ABOUT OUR

        17        POINT OF SURVEILLANCE AND THE RESULT OF AND THE

        18        EFFECTS ON PRACTITIONERS AND THE BACTERIA THAT

        19        WERE ISOLATED AT HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL.

        20                     AND THIS SLIDE, IT SAYS, "INFECTION

        21        CONTROL, M.R.S.A."  WHAT THAT STANDS FOR IS

        22        METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPH AUREUS.  THERE ARE

        23        CERTAIN TYPES OF STAPH.  WE TALKED ABOUT STAPH