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Here is a very (in)famous extract from a genuine legal transcript of a lawyer cross-examining a medical expert witness during a trial. Enjoy. -
Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
- No.
- Did you check for blood pressure?
- No.
- Did you check for breathing?
- No.
- So then, is it possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
- No.
- How can you be so sure?
- Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
- But could the patient still have been alive, nevertheless?
- It is possible that he could have been alive and practising law somewhere…
Here is a very (in)famous extract from a genuine legal transcript of a lawyer cross-examining a medical expert witness during a trial. Enjoy. -
Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
- No.
- Did you check for blood pressure?
- No.
- Did you check for breathing?
- No.
- So then, is it possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
- No.
- How can you be so sure?
- Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
- But could the patient still have been alive, nevertheless?
- It is possible that he could have been alive and practising law somewhere…
