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Trivia
MGH crestMGH nurses were featured in a four-part, front-page series in The
Boston Globe entitled "Critical care: The making of an ICU nurse", which is
being used in nursing schools throughout the country.
MGH distributes Shasta soda beverages to its patients. All vending facilities
vend Coca-Cola products. There are five main food service areas for the general
public. They include the Eat Street Cafe in the lower level of the Ellison
Building, the Blossom Street Cafe in the Cox lobby, Coffee Central in the White
lobby, Tea Leaves and Coffee Beans in the Wang Ambulatory Care Center, and
Coffee South in the Yawkey outpatient center.
MGH is referred to as "MBH" or "Man's Best Hospital" in Samuel Shem's satirical
novel, The House of God; also as "Man's Greatest Hospital".
There have been several mentions of Massachusetts General Hospital in fictional
television series and movies:
In the long-running series M*A*S*H, the character Major Charles Emerson
Winchester III was said to have previously worked at the hospital as a thoracic
surgeon. Incorrect entry. Major Winchester worked at Boston General Hospital.
Some have assumed the name gaves props to Massachusetts General and Boston City.
In the series "St. Elsewhere", the doctors of St. Elsewhere often make
references to Boston General Hospital, which could be interpreted as a reference
to MGH.
In the series Arrested Development, Tobias Fünke worked at the hospital as chief
resident during his psychiatry training.
In the series Alias, Arvin Sloane mentions that Sydney's psychiatrist trained at
the hospital.
In the movie Sleeping with the Enemy, an MGH neurologist gives the characters of
Julia Roberts and Patrick Bergen a ride on his sailboat off the coast of Cape
Cod.
In the movie Malice, the lead character played by Alec Baldwin is an MGH-trained
surgeon with a "God complex".
In episode of House, Dr. Gregory House fakes brain cancer in order to
participate in a clinical trial at the MGH. The experimental anti-depressant
would have given Dr. House, addicted to painkillers, a powerful high.
In the 80s residents and students fondly referred to the hospital as Mass
Genitals.
The hospital's morgue previously faced Allen St., which provides the hospital
employee's code-name or euphemism for the morgue, or even death in general —
"moved to Allen St.".
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