IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

                     FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

                               CIVIL TRIAL DIVISION

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            LINDA DURKIN WRIGHT,                : FEBRUARY TERM, 1993
            ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF     :
            CHARLES MARTIN DURKIN, DECEASED,    :
            AND IN HER OWN RIGHT                :
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                        VS                     :
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            BELMONT CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE    :
            TREATMENT, INC, FORMERLY KNOWN AS  :
            PHILADELPHIA PSYCHIATRIC CENTER,    :
            INC                                : NO 1692
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                                  JULY 15, 1997
                                  COURTROOM 246
                                    CITY HALL
                            PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

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               DIRECT EXAMINATION AND PARTIAL CROSS EXAMINATION OF
                              JEROME H ROGOFF, MD

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            BEFORE:      HONORABLE ANNE E LAZARUS, J

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            APPEARANCES:

                         NANCY L GOLDSTEIN, ESQUIRE
                         ANAPOL, SCHWARTZ, WEISS & COHAN
                         FOR THE PLAINTIFF

                         DONALD F LADD, ESQUIRE
                         WHITE AND WILLIAMS
                         FOR THE DEFENDANT
 

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         3  PLAINTIFF'S_EVIDENCE
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         5  WITNESS                       DR     CR     RDR     RCR
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         6  JEROME H ROGOFF, MD        23     52

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         8  VOIR_DIRE
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        11  JEROME H ROGOFF, MD         3      9

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         1                MS GOLDSTEIN:  YOUR HONOR, MY NEXT WITNESS

         2         WILL BE DR ROGOFF

         3               THE COURT CRIER:  STATE YOUR FULL NAME FOR

         4         THE COURT; SPELL YOUR LAST NAME

         5               THE WITNESS:  JEROME HOWARD ROGOFF,

         6         R-O-G-O-F-F

         7               THE COURT CRIER:  YOUR PRACTICING ADDRESS FOR

         8         THE COURT

         9               THE WITNESS:  659 CHESTNUT STREET, WABAN,

        10         W-A-B-A-N, MASSACHUSETTS

        11                       (WITNESS SWORN)

        12               JEROME H ROGOFF, MD, HAVING BEEN DULY

        13         SWORN, WAS EXAMINED AND TESTIFIED AS FOLLOWS:

        14                      DIRECT EXAMINATION

        15  BY MS GOLDSTEIN:

        16  Q     WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION, SIR?

        17  A     I AM A PSYCHIATRIST, PSYCHOANALYST AND FORENSIC

        18  PSYCHIATRIST

        19  Q     DOCTOR, WHERE DID YOU GO TO COLLEGE?

        20  A     HARVARD COLLEGE

        21  Q     WHAT DID YOU DO AFTER COLLEGE?

        22  A     AFTER COLLEGE, I SPENT A YEAR TRAVELING IN THIS

        23  COUNTRY AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND IN EUROPE, AND THEN I

        24  BEGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL

        25         GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE IN 1960, BEGAN MEDICAL
 

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         1  SCHOOL IN 1961 AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE MEDICAL SCHOOL IN

         2  CLEVELAND, OHIO  I WAS THERE FOR FOUR YEARS  I GRADUATED

         3  WITH AN MD DEGREE  I THEN INTERNED IN MEDICINE IN

         4  CHICAGO AT MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL, FOLLOWING WHICH I SPENT

         5  TWO YEARS IN THE PEACE CORPS AS A PEACE CORPS PHYSICIAN IN

         6  NEPAL AND IN ASIA, AND THEN I CAME BACK TO BOSTON AND TOOK

         7  A PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY; THAT IS WHEN I SPECIALIZED IN

         8  PSYCHIATRY FROM 1968 TO 1971  CONCURRENT WITH THE SECOND

         9  YEAR OF THAT TRAINING, I BEGAN INDEPENDENTLY

        10  PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING IN BOSTON  I COMPLETED THAT IN

        11  1977, IN PSYCHOANALYSIS