Oh, The Places We Go
BWH has a strong oncology service line. All inpatient oncology units reside in the Tower building excluding this floor.
What is CWN7?
This technician has been here for over 40 years.
Who is Eddie Holmes?
Brigham and Women's Hospital is notably affiliated with this academic institution.
What is Harvard Medical School?
In our latest hospital wide effort, Biomed replaced an entire fleet of patient data modules with the new Carescape Ones, though nursing staff call both models by this name.
What are bricks?
Cutting and pasting... copying and pasting.... Careful what you click, moving anything in this drive can be a hassle to fix.
What is the Biomed drive?
BWH Main Campus has this many Biomed shops (Model/Machine shops not included).
What is 8 shops?
This employee is the only person in the department with a doctorate degree.
Who is Dan Kacher?
Rooted in several historical and cultural sources, the fear of this number is present at BWH, with the Tower building, patient rooms and operating rooms all skipping this number.
What is 13?
There is one word you would never say to a person holding the pager. HINT: "Wow, it's been...."
What is "Quiet"?
Monitors, centrals, subsystems, oh my! Having a duplicate this on the network can cause some serious headaches.
What is an IP address?
The Mary Horrigan Connors Center is home to BWH's women's health areas. This building is also known as CWN, which stands for this.
What is Center for Women and Newborns?
Brady Connors was nicknamed by his family after this amphibian when he was born.
What is a tadpole?
Brigham and Women's Hospital has been ranked first in the nation in this specialty for the last 3 years.
What is obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN)?
Nursing staff often call an electrosurgical unit by this nickname.
What is Bovi?
This device got smushed (shattered) by a C-Arm. I guess the C-Arm is stronger than gorilla glass...
What is a Carescape One?
The BWH Peri-Op team manages this number of operating rooms (not including procedural areas).
What is 43?
There is a retired competitive power lifter in the Biomed Dept. This individual both lifts up their team and some super heavy weights.
Who is Aurora Wilks?
Brigham and Women's Hospital was established with the 1980 merger of three Harvard-affiliated hospitals. The BWH campus as we know it today was built around this founding hospital. Hint: the name still exists today...
What is Peter Bent Brigham Hospital?
When troubleshooting, this phrase is almost always asked in a joking manner but can often be the solution to the problem.
What is “Did you try turning it off and on again?”
Misconfiguring the time on a central station can cause this.
What is a timestorm?
The pods of the BWH Emergency Department share their names with the cross streets of this Boston neighborhood.
What is Back Bay?
The Biomed department has notable talents outside of impressive medical device knowledge and efficient problem-solving skills. This manager can play the flute and piccolo.
Who is Elizabeth Sayles?
In 1954, one of BWH's founding hospitals performed the first-ever successful ________ on identical twins.
What is kidney transplant?
Nursing staff says this phrase about mobile equipment that goes missing.
What is "grew legs and walked away"?
On November 5th, 2024, the PCN team was making changes to a distribution switch and accidentally took down all monitoring. The downtime lasted this long.
What is 6 minutes?