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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
	2	FAIRFIELD COUNTY, OHIO

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	4	Randall Kuhn, et al,
	5	Plaintiffs,
	6	vs	Case No
			99 CV 520
	7	Steven Cox, MD,
		et al,
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		       Defendants
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	11	DEPOSITION OF	STEVEN	R WANAMAKER, MD
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	13	Wednesday, January 17, 2001
		3:50 o'clock pm
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	1	APPEARANCES:

2	ROBERT V TRACI, Attorney at Law
Traci & Marx
3	1370 West Sixth Street
Suite 350
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	5	On behalf of the Plaintiffs

6	PATRICK F SMITH, Attorney at Law
1490 Henderson Road
7	columbus, Ohio 43220
	8	       On behalf of the Defendants
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	1	WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION
		January 17, 2000
	2	3:50 ~ pm

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	4	STIPULATIONS

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6	It is stipulated by and between counsel for
	7	the respective parties herein that this deposition of
	8	STEVEN R WANAMAKER, MD, a Witness herein, called
	9	by the Plaintiffs under the statute, may be taken at
	10	this time and reduced to writing in stenotypy by the
	11	Notary, whose notes may thereafter be transcribed out
	12	of the presence of the witness; and that proof of the
	13	official character and qualifications of the Notary
	14	is waived
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	1		    PROCEEDINGS
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	3		 STEVEN R WANAMAKER, MD,
	4	being by me first duly sworn, as hereinafter
	5	certified,	deposes and says as follows:
	6		      CROSS—EXAMINATION
	7	BY MR TRACT:
	8	Q	Would you state your full name and
	9	address for the record, please?
	10	A	Steven Roger Wannamaker, 340 East Town
	11	Street, Columbus, Ohio
	12	Q	And, Doctor, you handed us just before we
	13	started a	CV dated January of 2000 Is that
	14	relatively	up to date?
	15	A	Yes, it is
	16	Q	Are there any additions you want to make
	17	toit-
	18	A	No
	19	Q	-— in terms of your background?
	20	A	No
	21	Q	The Medical College of Ohio, where is
	22	that located?
	23	A	Toledo
	24	Q	And it says post-doctoral training,
	25	Department	of Surgery at OSU Is that residencies?
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All in surgery?
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since 1985?
And you have been in the private practice
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'86?
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You're board certified in what?
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General surgery
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that
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engage in?
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Do you have any subspecialty of surgery
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And that was in '87 and recertified in
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have
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Are there any of the articles that you
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listed on Page 4 through whatever the last page
is -— 76 in your CV that might have particular
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reference to the case that we're involved in here?
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There's several presentations and written
articles No, I don't believe so; but there are
several presentations that are addressing
laparoscopic surgery, and there's one symposium that
I chaired on laparoscopic nissens, and I don't know

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	1	what the date was on that Maybe 1992
	2	Q	Is that in here?
	3	A	Yes It would be under Presentations, I
	4	believe
	5	Q	Laparoscopic hernia for surgeons '92?
	6	A	I don't -—
	7	Q	Laparoscopic cholies in '92;
	8	cholecystectomues, '93 Here Why donTt you -—
	9	A	It could be '94 I don't know when it
	10	was
	11		One presentation is 1995 I guess maybe
	12	the cholecystectomy one I thought was centered on
	13	nissens, but we did talk about nissens during that
	14	time It may have been more collectively
	15		And then in 1998 I also gave a
	16	presentation at the Michigan State University
	17	Q	The first one -— that last one you
	18	mentioned,	what number is that on there?
	19	A	33
	20	Q	33 And the one before about the
	21	cholecystectomy was ——
	22	A	The one about the cholecystectomy was 25
	23	And that was 1993
	24	Q	Okay And those are presentations?
	25	A	Yes
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various ——
what was said?
So those are oral speeches you gave to
——	colleagues?
Do you have anything in writing about
Well, if we talked about laparoscopy in
general, which is, I think, a lot of the basis of
this case, one of these presentations, which was
given at a national meeting in Florida, was on tape,