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TORONTO An Ontario pathologist under scrutiny at a public inquiry seemed to lack even "basic training" in forensic tramadol online medication a discipline in which he toiled for years, an international panel of experts concluded in a scathing review of Dr. Charles Smith's controversial autopsies. Gaps in elementary knowledge led Dr. Smith to make a litany of errors, the experts are quoted as saying in minutes of a 2006 meeting. He too readily diagnosed suffocation as a cause of death, failed to properly identify injuries and mistook changes that happened after death as injuries, the experts said at the meeting. Dr. Smith's diagnosis of head trauma based on brain weight was "untenable and outside the mainstream of forensic tramadol online medication," they added. The group also dismissed testimony in court of Ontario's head of pediatric forensic tramadol online medication as frequently unbalanced, misleading and "emotive." "The panel indicated that Dr. Smith did not appear to have basic training in forensic tramadol online medication," said the minutes of a December, 2006, meeting involving three of the international experts. "The panel indicated that Dr. Smith's testimony had a tendency to become unbalanced. This, combined with a lack of knowledge in forensic tramadol online medication, sometimes resulted in unreasonable testimony." Relatively few details of his errors have been revealed publicly before now. The minutes were introduced at the inquiry. In another, 2007 memo, however, Dr. Michael Pollanen, Ontario's chief forensic pathologist, suggests it would be unfair and misleading to single out Dr. Smith for public criticism, when others involved in the death investigations likely made mistakes, too. In fact, a later review by the chief coroner's office found serious problems with the role of the coroners the officials who oversee such investigations in several of his cases. The inquiry was prompted by the expert panel's findings about 45 post mortems done by Dr. Smith in deaths where there were suspicions of criminal behaviour. The panel found significant mistakes in 20 of the cases. Some parents and others charged with homicide offences have since been cleared. The panel consisted of three pathologists from Great Britain, one from Finland and one from Alberta. They met to discuss their findings and reach a consensus at two "reconciliation" meetings late last year in Toronto, each involving three of the specialists. The minutes of the sessions were raised at the inquiry. The experts were particularly blunt about Dr. Smith's work in the case of three year old Tyrell. The pathologist said the boy's serious brain injury was caused by a blunt force impact to his head. "All agreed that the opinion given by Dr. Smith as to the mechanism of injury, by any reasonable standard, is grossly erroneous," the experts are quoted as saying. Tyrell's caregiver was charged with murder, but the charges were later withdrawn. In the case of baby Taylor, who died in 1996 at three months, the panel said the autopsy findings were misinterpreted by Dr. Smith and the cause of death should have been listed as "unascertained." ... tramadol online medication