This is Guacapod. I'm C. M.C. producer Katie Kramer on our podcast today, Dr. Atul Gowanday.

We're learning now what keeps health care workers safe.

That's going to show us how we can get everybody back to work safely.

The surgeon, New Yorker writer, and leader of an innovative new health care venture on the lessons of coronavirus.

And it's almost the weekend we We could all use a break.

Food and Mind magazine's Ray Isle on Happy Hour virtually.

You know, you can theme it kind of any way you want.

You can tie it to a specific kind of cocktail.

You can say, we're all going to do Pino-Noir. It's Friday March 27th, 2020.

It's Friday, March 27th, 2020, Squac Pot begins right now.

Good morning, everybody.

I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Cronin and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Let's start with the markets.

As coronavirus cases flood the United States health care system,

orderlies, nurses, and doctors are taking extra steps and making harder decisions as they maintain the health of the American public.

Our highlight guest today on the pod is one of those essential care workers, Dr. Atul Gowanday of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

He's written about those hard decisions and crucial methodologies in two of his books, The Checklist

Manifesto and Being Mortal.

Both should definitely be on your isolation bookshelf.

They're fantastic.

He's a surgeon, a staff writer for the New Yorker,

and he's the CEO of Haven, the new and still quiet joint health care

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