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that he wanted a list of all former employees and their addresses so that he
could get in touch with them for purposes of examination and treatment.
That
he wanted us to pay him $10,000. which he said was small compensation for all
the work that he had done on the cases that he had treated since certain of
them involved great effort and a large amount of time directly with the
patients as well as for research work. He mentioned a treatment machine
that he had designed. He said it was a secret. He would divulge it to us
if we would play ball with him.
The rest of his proposition was that we
pay him $2.00 an office call for all former employees that he could get into
his office. When asked if he thought most of them would come to him, he said
he thought it could be arranged because he would speal to some of the dentists
in the district and that they would be glad to send him any work of this kind.
Dr. Knef said that if we did not accept his proposition and
play ball with him, he would bring suit against certain of his former
patients to collect large fees. That he was in a position to make any
charges he desired and that in turn these people would sue us for heavy
damages. That in that event, he was in a position to testify for them in
such a way that he would guarantee that we would lose the suits because he
could produce evidence that could not be controverted by any lawyers or
medical experts and that he was, without blowing his own horn, the greatest
expert in the conditions that he referred to.
On the other hand, if we pay him the money, he can testify
favorably for us.
He said an expert witness's opinion was what he wanted
it to be.
That it was customary for experts to testify for the people who
paid them. He proposed to work for the side that his bread was buttered on.
He illustrated this by referring to the strip film mentioned above and saying,
there is a case that I can say is pyorrhea or that it is radium necrosis.
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