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you know, I start to go, “Boy,” you know, “something,” - -
I mean, “Something’s rotten in Denmark.”
 
A.
I mean, the reason we were talking to
Dr. Minkoff is because I wasn’t licensed in this state.
had no -- I wouldn’t write any prescriptions.
Not that I would write a prescription for
Valium, anyway.

Q.
Right.
A.
And Janice, although she has an MD degree, she
didn’t practice any medicine. She’s not licensed in the
state. So, you know, that’s why Dr. Minkoff was called.
 
Q.
But I mean -- what I’m asking you -- I think you
went all the way around my question of - - this is --
You’re a dentist. That’s a doctor.
 
A.
Right.
Q.
She’s a doctor. He’s a doctor.
A.
Right.
Q.
Now, there’s three doctors here.
Is it normal practice to get a prescription of
liquid Valium in one of the doctors’ names to give. to
another patient?

A.
I wouldn’t think so, no. Unusual circumstance,
however.
 
Q.
Okay. Now, I find it very odd that -- we’ll go
back to the three doctors again -- MD anesthesiologist, a

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