Figures. A guy gets his gut busted open by aliens but a little needle still makes him queasy. Howard will never understand people's priorities around here. He takes the blood and sets it aside - he'll run it through the scanner for the usual suspects, but also to see if there's any sort of coagulation problem that could offer an alternate explanation to the high blood pressure. Just in case.

Howard's pretty sure he has this pegged, though.

"Okay, shirt off." He puts his stethoscope on. "I'm going to check your heart and breathing and then poke your stomach a little."