Dr. Gregory. I didn't see the wound of his wrist until after the chest operation had been completed, because his arm was covered by the operation drapes, the surgical drapes for the chest procedure.
Mr. Specter. And when you did have an opportunity to observe the wound of the wrist, what did you then see?
Dr. Gregory. I observed the wound on the dorsal aspect of his wrist, which was about 2 cm. in length, ragged, somewhat irregular, and lay about an inch and a half or 2 inches above the wrist joint. It was a little to the radial side of the wrist area.
There was a second wound in the wrist on the volar surface, about a centimeter and a half proximal to the distal flexion crease and this wound was a transverse laceration no more than a centimeter in length and did not gape.
Mr. Specter. When you say on the dorsal aspect, what is that?
Dr. Gregory. In lay terms, that's equivalent to the back of the hand.
Mr. Specter. And the volar is equivalent to what?
Dr. Gregory. The palm surface of the hand.
Mr. Specter. What conclusion, if any, did you reach as to which was the wound of entry and exit on the wrist?
Dr. Gregory. Based on certain findings in the wound at the time the debridement was carried out——