COVID-19
This physician is the Chief Medical Health Officer of Canada
Dr. Theresa Tam
This antibiotic has action as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor
Linezolid
The official room number of the C&W Pharmacy Main Dispensary
OB7
This “Festival of Lights”, widely associated with the goddess Lakshmi, lasts for five days and happens before Hanukkah.
Diwali
The Mandalorian, streaming on Disney+, has the title character protecting The Child, also colloquially known by this name.
Baby Yoda
This letter represents the number of cases expected to be generated from a single case, also known as the basic reproduction number.
R
After being recently discontinued by Johnson & Johnson in Canada, this medication will now be a "rear" find.
Microlax
The hospital colour code called when the C&W Pharmacy Department was flooded in 2019
Code Green
A Western holiday with origins that stem from providing charity and gratuities to the poor and servicepeople (e.g. servants, postmen)
Boxing Day
This six-season Canadian series followed a previously-wealthy family forced to relocate to a small town that was purchased as a joke
Schitt's Creek
This drug, previously used in clinical Ebola trials, was the first to be identified for the treatment of COVID-19 until the World Health Organization issued a conditional recommendation against its use in November 2020
Remdesivir
This famous pharmacy technician used her knowledge of "poisons" in her writing.
Agatha Christie
For NICU patients, lipids and multivitamins are mixed together in a syringe during Parenteral Nutrition preparation unless this lipid volume is exceeded.
50 mL
The number of branches on a Hanukkah Menorah
Nine
This NBA team was the winner of the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy in 2020.
This German-based pharmaceutical company was the first to produce public interim results for the COVID-19 vaccine.
BioNTech
Made every Tuesday in the C&W Main Pharmacy, this 30 mL "cushioned" compounded product has sodium bicarbonate as an ingredient and is stored in the fridge.
Buffered Lidocaine
To reach the technician involved in restocking fentanyl or morphine, one would use this Vocera command.
CSM technician
My true love gave this to me on the ninth day of Christmas.
Nine ladies dancing
The late Alex Trebek appeared in an episode of The X-Files as a member of this secret organization, which in subsequent years also included Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and most recently, Tessa Thompson.
Men in Black
The brand name of remdesivir
Veklury
The chemical difference between diphenhydramine and dimenhydrinate (besides their name)
8-chlorotheophylline
The intended dendrologic ward name for Evergreen during the renaming process of BC Women's Hospital wards
Elder
The year Mariah Carey released her Christmas album "Merry Christmas"
1994
The number of seasons Alex Trebek was the host of Jeopardy
37