He wants to hang out with you as a friend or he wouldn't have wanted to take up the offer of meeting at the bar. You don't say what sort of things he's done that's made him seem flirtatious. There's nothing you've mentioned here though which indicates he wants more than friendship. Even if he called at 8 pm, there would have been nothing flirtatious about that. I used to have a job where we needed to contact people at home, and it was always considered professional to call people up until 9 pm at night. Since most people work during the day on week-days, you have to call people during evening hours if you are going to be calling people at home.
If he were interested in more, I would think it would be too risky for him to flirt with a patient. I think if you want to pursue this and see if it can lead anywhere, you should start things off slowly and just be friends first. If your friends who see each other outside of his office, it won't be nearly as threatening to talk about the possibility of dating. He was safe accepting the invitation to the bar because your friend was there as well, and it wouldn't have seemed like a date. For now, I would continue inviting him to the bar only if somebody else is going to be around as well.
I would not read to much into it since he could possibly
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He wants to hang out with you as a friend or he wouldn't have wanted to take up the offer of meeting at the bar. You don't say what sort of things he's done that's made him seem flirtatious. There's nothing you've mentioned here though which indicates he wants more than friendship. Even if he called at 8 pm, there would have been nothing flirtatious about that. I used to have a job where we needed to contact people at home, and it was always considered professional to call people up until 9 pm at night. Since most people work during the day on week-days, you have to call people during evening hours if you are going to be calling people at home.
If he were interested in more, I would think it would be too risky for him to flirt with a patient. I think if you want to pursue this and see if it can lead anywhere, you should start things off slowly and just be friends first. If your friends who see each other outside of his office, it won't be nearly as threatening to talk about the possibility of dating. He was safe accepting the invitation to the bar because your friend was there as well, and it wouldn't have seemed like a date. For now, I would continue inviting him to the bar only if somebody else is going to be around as well.