Mr. Specter. You mean on the volar aspect?
Dr. Shaw. Yes; if a whole bullet hit here——
Mr. Specter. Indicating the dorsal aspect?
Dr. Shaw. Yes; and came out through here, why it didn't carry more bone out through the wrist than it did, and the bone was left in the wrist—the bone did not come out. In other words, when it struck the fifth rib it made a hole this big around (indicating) in the chest in carrying bone fragments out through the chest wall.
Mr. Specter. Wouldn't that same question arise if it went through the volar aspect and exited through the dorsal aspect?
Dr. Shaw. It wouldn't if you postulated that the bullet did not pass through the wrist, but struck the wrist.
Mr. Specter. That would be present in either event, though, if you postulated if the bullet struck the dorsal aspect of the wrist, and did not pass through, but only a missile passed through the volar aspect.
Dr. Shaw. Yes; in that case, however, considering the wound of exit from the chest, and if that same bullet went on through the wrist, I would still expect a pretty good wound of entrance.
Mr. Specter. You see, I am trying now, Dr. Shaw, to disassociate the thought that this is the same missile, so that I'm trying to look at it just from the physical characteristics of the appearance of the wounds on the two sides of the wrist.
Dr. Shaw. May we go off the record just a minute?