The Globe has enlisted three medical workers to tell their stories in their own words. Throughout the coming days, you’ll meet a top emergency room doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital, a young critical care nurse at Tufts Medical Center, and a respiratory therapist at Newton Wellesley Hospital. All have opened up to Globe reporters about their patients and their experiences.

Prine’s genius was to seem bemused, confused, and amused at the cosmic comedy of life. His songs laughed and sighed, shrugged their shoulders, wept a little, ordered another beer.

The economic shock is now reaching deeper into Boston’s tech eco-system, with two promising startups announcing layoffs and furloughs of employees in recent days.