Simon didn't particularly want to be patient, knowing that River was either sleeping in a pod full of goo or dead. Obviously, the former would be preferable, but he would have to wait and see, and it was the waiting that was going to be awful.

He added "Dr. McNinja" onto the list of people he was going to have to find.

"I think I'd like to take a look at the infirmary, if that's all right." A medical team implied a medical bay, after all. If anything, it would take his mind off his sister's absence.