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1 asbestos exposure in the form of pleural plaques or Page 3695 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