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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\"></p>           You'd think it would be the defendant doctor who would want to avoid publicity in a medical malpractice suit, not the plaintiff and attorneys suing him.<br /><br />But that's the case in the suit that plaintiff James Greco filed in Madison County Circuit Court against Dr. Bruce Vest of the Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Clinic in Alton.<br /><br />Greco's attorneys, David Horan and Burton Newman, have asked Judge Andreas Matoesian to order both parties in the case not to contact or cooperate with the media or \"act in a manner to instigate media coverage.\"<br /><br />Horan and Newman complain that stories about the lawsuit published in local media have been \"favorable to the defendants and negative to the plaintiffs.<br /><br />\"The published stories risk polluting the potential jury pool in Madison County and prevent the plaintiffs from obtaining a fair trial of this matter,\" they protest. \"The merits of this case should be determined as prescribed by law -- by a jury -- unsullied by biased (and orchestrated) media reports.\"<br /><br />Horan was not so reticent about publicity or fearful of polluted Madison County jury pools back in 2003 when he helped win a record $10 billion judgment against cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris.<br /><br />But that was then and this is now.<br /><br />James Greco's wife, Tamara Kay Greco, was employed as a legal secretary by Alton plaintiffs attorney Steve Selby. On April 29, 2004, she sprained her ankle. The next day, Tamara visited the Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Clinic for treatment. She died a week later from bilateral pulmonary thromboemboli.<br /><br />James Greco alleges that the equalizer brace supplied by Dr. Vest caused or contributed to the blood clot that precipitated his wife's death.<br /><br />Tamara Greco was 5'4\" and 230 pounds at the time.<br /><br />What is it about this six-year-old suit &ndash; a suit that James Greco filed two years after his wife's death, then subsequently dropped and years later refiled -- that won't bear public scrutiny?<br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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