"It'd had helped if I'd received explicit orders to that effect from somebody I already knew to be in my chain of command?  I agree it does sound like exactly the sort of thing our good Doctor would do, and then expect everyone else to figure out on their own without his bothering to have sent anyone orders about it."

"Are you in the middle of anything urgent I'd be putting you out of your way from doing?"

"It'd had helped if I'd received explicit orders to that effect from somebody I already knew to be in my chain of command?  I agree it does sound like exactly the sort of thing our good Doctor would do, and then expect everyone else to figure out on their own without his bothering to have sent anyone orders about it."

"Are you in the middle of anything urgent I'd be putting you out of your way from doing?"