"I really should check out that cough of yours," He chose to focus on the respiratory infection for now, for reasons that would become apparent in a second, "I can't imagine them actually having a medical ward in this place?"
If he could get them to let him look her over as her PCP, he'd have some time to talk to her alone. Without the prying eyes of the nurses, trying to get him to feed her the 'puking is bad' party-line.