Dale closed his eyes and tried to concentrate over the increasing feeling of panic.  When he was a kid, he’d fallen off his bike and broken his arm.  To avoid exacerbating the injury, they’d carefully cut his shirt sleeve off before putting him in a cast.  It was something often overlooked in medical dramas, but probably not an uncommon practice.  Here, they’d have no idea what his clothing was made out of, or whether or not it could safely go in whatever kind of medical scanning devices they had, and doctors generally erred on the side of caution.  