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1 asbestos exposure in the form of pleural plaques or
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2 asbestos bodies.
3 Q And he had both?
4 A And he had both.
5 At that point the medical record was
6 basically sort of incidental and confirmatory.
7 I didn't really base any opinions on it.
8 Q Did you get any information from the medical
9 records as to whether he had been able to describe for
10 any of his doctors any jobs or work that he had done
11 which involved occupational exposure to asbestos?
12 A Yes. He said that he had worked as a garage
13 mechanic and garage supervisor during the course of
14 his career.
15 This was confirmatory of basically what I
16 had already seen under the microscope.
17 Q Based upon what you saw under the
18 microscope, all of the materials you had, your reading
19 of the medical and scientific literature, some of
20 which we went through with the jury, have you reached
21 an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty