People ask if I’m like the character from the television show “House.” It’s amazing how many people say that. I never watched it.

When you get a patient, what are you trying to figure out?

We have to find out where a person has been and whom they’ve been in contact with.

You’re basically drawing two different maps. One is a timeline of symptoms, and separately you’re drawing a map of where different groups of people might fit into, and how someone was feeling at that time.

What do you do for work? How do you get to work? Are you always on the 5 a.m. bus out of Scarsdale? Do you pick up coffee from a coffee cart on your way into the office?

We even ask about extramarital affairs.

What have we learned about coronavirus?

We’re still coming to an understanding of how it spreads. During the 2003 SARS outbreak, people initially thought it spread only through droplets. Later, there was evidence of airborne spread, which is when the idea of wearing N95 respirator masks came in.

The coronavirus may be somewhere in between droplets and airborne spread, depending on the situation.

Have you ever seen anything like the coronavirus?

A few years ago, the hospital I worked at in Queens had an early case of the H1N1 swine flu. That was similar in that it was new and infecting people in a very different way than prior flus.