Friday, August 8, 2014

Say What?! – What Kind of Doctor Is He?

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From Jack C. Eisenberg of Austin (Byrd, Davis & Eisenberg), this excerpt from the deposition of a personal injury plaintiff:


Q. Do you know a Dr. Parker?


A. Yes. It was – the 9th is when I had an appointment with Dr. Parker …


Q. What kind of doctor is Dr. Parker?


A. He is a – Well, he is a gentleman. He is not real old. He is kind of thin.


Q. Is he a medical doctor? A. Yes, he’s a doctor.


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From Scott S. Vasquez of Houston (Mallia & Jacobs), this deposition excerpt from a suit alleging that someone in an attorney’s office had forged a client’s name on insurance checks and a release:


Q. Do you know who Dr. Alex Melvin Wade, Jr., is?


A. Yes, I do.


Q. Who is he?


A. He – he worked for me about – maybe about a month in 1991.


Q. In what capacity?


A. As a paralegal.


Q. He was a doctor of what?


A. That was his first name, “Doctor.”


Q. He wasn’t an M.D.?


A. No. Nor a Ph.D., nor a J.D.


Q. Are you saying that “Doctor” was his first legal name?


A. According to him.


Q. And did you put Doctor Alex Melvin Wade, Jr.’s name

on your letterhead?


A. Yes.


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