Yep, wrong direction... He is regretting his word choice so badly right now. Can he just bail on this and forget it happened? That'd be great--but, sigh, it'd also be really poor patient care, so no he cannot do that.

"Probably not." ...Aren't vampires dead by nature, anyway? He chooses not to comment on the redundancy. "What I mean to say is that probably it isn't anything to worry about."