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DEPOSITION OF EARL F. HOERNER, M.D.

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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO

RICHARD MAHER,
Plaintiff,

V. Case N 89723

PRADIST SATAYATHUM, M.D.,
Defendant.

VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION of
EARL FRANKLIN HOERNER, M.D., taken on beba f of
the Plaintiff, pursuant notice, before
Sarah Zahar, Registered Professional Repor er and
Notary Public in and for the Commonwealth f
Massachusetts, at the offices of Fritz & S eeha..
Associates, Inc., 76 Summer Street, Boston
Massachusetts 02110, on Tuesday, March 4, 986,
commencing at 10:10 AM

PRESENT:

Endress & Endress
(by Richard R. Endress, Esq.)
17119 Madison Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
for the Plaintiff

Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A.
(by W. Frederick Fifner, Esq.)
300 Leader Building
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
for the Defendant

Mr. Louis Cicalese, Videotape Operato
Valed, Inc.
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FRITZ & SHEEHAN ASSOCIATES, INC
76 Summer Street, Boston 02110
(617)423-0500

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WITNESS: PAG
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Earl Franklin Hoerner, M.D.
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BY MR.  ENDRESS: 3
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BY MR.  ENDRESS; 107
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1 P R 0 C E E D I N G S

2 VIDEOTAPE OPERATOR: My nam@ is

3 Louis J. Cicalese.  I'm the video operato r for

4 this deposition.  The company I work for is Valed,

5 Incorporated.

6 MR. ENDRESS: My name is Ri hard R.

7 Endress.  I am one of the attorneys repre@enting

8 the plaintiff, Richard Maher, in this law@uit

9 against Dr. Satayathum.

10 MR. FIFNER: My name is Pre erick

11 Fifner of the firm Reminger & Reminger on behalf

12 of Dr. Satayathum.

13 MR. ENDRESS: Will you swea@-the

14 witness, please.

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16 EARL FRANKLIN HOERNER, M.D., S orn

17 DIRECT EXAMINATION

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19 Q. Will you state your name, plea@e.

20 A. Earl Franklin Hoerner, H-o-e-rLn-e-r.

21 Q. And what is your address, Dr. oerner?

22 A. My professional address is Dep rtment

23 of Orthopedics, University of Connecticut Medical

24 School, University Hospital, known as the Health

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I Center, in Farmington, Connecticut.
2 Q. Are you a medical doctor?
3 A. I am a medical doctor.
4 Q. Will you tell the ladies and g ntlemen
5 of the jury something of your background, starting
6 first with your education that you had to become a
7 doctor.
8 A. I went to Pennsylvania State U@iversity,
9 transferred to Carnegie Institute of Tech@ology'
10 now known as Carnegie-Mellon, in Pittsbur Fh, in
11 electrical engineering.
12 Then went into the military service,
13 and then came back and went to Dickinson Cp1lege,
14 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where I received a BS
15 and also the same year received my EE de ree from
16 Carnegie Tech.
17 At the time I received the e degrees,
is in 1948, I was already in medical school and had
19 graduated from Hahnemann Medical College@ which is
20 now Hahnemann University in Philadelphia
21 Pennsylvania, in the year 1949.
22 I took an internship, rota ing, at
Fil 23 Staten Island Marine Hospital, and from here went
24 into an orthopedic residency at New York
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1 University, Bellevue Medical Center.
2 After a period of two years, I took
3 a year's leave of absence and went to the
4 University Of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
5 and received a Master's in Public Health d  gree,
6 I'm sorry, a Master in science in biophysi@cs and
7 occupational medicine.
8 I returned to New York University,
9 Bellevue Medical Center, and took another year and
10 a half in the field of rehabilitation medicine,
11 and subsequently finished all my residenc y
12 training, went to the University of Louis@ille, in
13 I think 1954-55. I stayed as department hpad in
14 the rehabilitation medicine.
15 I left there and returned t what
16 had become my native state of New Jersey n 1955,
17 and I became a clinical director, Kessler
18 Institute, and also an instructor and had
19 privileges in the Crippled Children's Hos@ital in
20 Newark, New Jersey, and in Christ Hospita in
21 Jersey City, New Jersey.
22 I stayed in that capacity till
23 1957-58, when I left there and went to New Jersey
24 Orthopedic Hospital, where I stayed till, in a
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1 capacity as clinical director, till 1972.
2 During this period of time, in 1958,
3 1 was given a fellowship in the Internati onal
4 College of Surgeons; and I had previously
5 qualified for Boards in Rehabilitation Me Iicine in
6 1955.
7 In my duties and capacities at the
8 orthopedic hospital, I was coordinator of the
9 teaching program, director of ambulatory are, had
10 surgical privileges, and stayed in that c@pacity
11 in a full-time position along with an app