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Icelandic Man Dies After Serious Car Accident in South Africa
Worldruvmorgunbladid7d ago2 sources

Icelandic Man Dies After Serious Car Accident in South Africa

Kjartan Guðmundsson, an Icelandic man who was involved in a serious car accident in South Africa in December, has died at Landspítalinn's intensive care unit in Iceland at the age of 46. He had been in intensive care since the accident.

Bolsonaro's Health Improves, Moved from ICU
Worldnaftemporiki24d ago

Bolsonaro's Health Improves, Moved from ICU

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's health is improving, and he has been transferred from an intensive care unit to a high-dependency unit in a private clinic in Brasília.

Bolsonaro moved to intensive care with bronchopneumonia as family renews house arrest plea
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Bolsonaro moved to intensive care with bronchopneumonia as family renews house arrest plea

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted on Friday to the intensive care unit of Brasília’s DF Star hospital after being transferred from prison with high fever, low oxygen saturation, sweating and chills. The medical bulletin said tests confirmed bilateral bacterial bronchopneumonia and that the former president is receiving intravenous antibiotics and non-invasive clinical support.

Frederick Wiseman brought a uniquely empowering scale to his immersive documents of ordinary life
CulturewsjThe GuardianDaily Star BD1mo ago3 sources

Frederick Wiseman brought a uniquely empowering scale to his immersive documents of ordinary life

His maximal studies of US institutions such as welfare bureaucracy and an intensive care unit were packed with human detail and free from explicit commentary • Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96 The documentary form is often thought to be governed by a manageable feature-length high concept: the story of a person, an institution, an historical episode. The subject itself and the film’s attitude towards it, its editorial slant, are habitually plain enough and the procedure is metonymic: the camera focuses on a part, and the whole is illuminated by implication. Often they have a sexed-up, quirky story to tell, which might mean a selective and sneakily tendentious approach to editing the material. But that is not quite the case with the films of Frederick Wiseman. His colossal, immersive movies about ordinary people and ordinary lives enclosed in some kind of institution, and characterised by the absence of voiceovers, intertitles or the off-camera directorial presence of the interviewing voice, are not amenable to the elevator pitch; they are the entire elevator shaft itself, and the whole building that houses it. Whereas epic-length films might be generally held to be appropriate for big and distinctively historical subjects, such as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah or Marcel Ophüls’s The Sorrow and the Pity, Wiseman applies the maximal approach to static cross-section studies of sometimes less obviously momentous topics such as Paris’s Crazy Horse nightclub or the French restaurant Le Bois Sans Feuilles. However his greatest works are top-to-bottom body-politic pictures of public institutions, huge, intricate constructions of unglamour; his movies themselves were virtual institutions, movie-edifices mirroring their subjects in architectural form and indeed almost always funded by one particular public institution: PBS, the Public Broadcasting System. Continue reading...

What COVID Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent
Healthzerohedge25d ago

What COVID Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent

What COVID Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent Authored by Joseph Varon via the Brownstone Institute, The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between them. Intensive care units became Covid wards. Monitors glowed in dark rooms while ventilators pushed air into failing lungs. Nurses, shrouded in protective gear, moved quietly. Families were absent—barred from being with loved ones in their final hours. One ni...

Breaking: Senator Dickson Dumps PDP for NDC
Politicsvanguard-ng1mo ago

Breaking: Senator Dickson Dumps PDP for NDC

Dickson, who is at present addressing a world press conference, said that he is a man of conviction  and that the PDP at the moment is at Intensive Care Unit, ICU. The post Breaking: Senator Dickson Dumps PDP for NDC appeared first on Vanguard News.