hospitalisations
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Mitch Winehouse And The Understatement Of The Decade
9:41AM Clem Bastow | Look, I know it’s never big nor cool to mock the afflicted, and I’m sure Winegums’ whole “OMG rushed to hospital” ordeal was, like, totally nail-biting, but I couldn’t help but laugh at dad Mitch Winehouse’s apparent exclamations to the crowd that gathered as Amy was being poured into the ambulance the other day, because, well, you’ll work it out:
Distraught Mitch, 54, was heard shouting: “She’s f***** up, she’s f***** up,” The Sun newspaper in England reported.
What the Sun nor news.com.au didn’t clear up was whether he was shouting that in relation to her hospitalisation, or whether he was just making a general statement about Amy’s day to day life.
You know, I’m starting to worry that covering Winegums Watch is desensitising me; I think the signs are there – the other day I bit the head off a fluffy kitten and spat it in the face of some children suffering from incurable diseases, and all I wanted to do afterwards was body shots. Then I punched a hole in the side of a church collections box and spent the money on Mad Magazine. What the hell is happening to me? More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Rushed To Hospital (Again)
10:46AM Clem Bastow | Lord, lord, lord, lord… Saying a story about Amy Winehouse having a (presumably drug-related) health crisis is “breaking news” is like saying “Exclusive: Man Invents Wheel” – but, there you go, evidently it is a breaking story in the UK, since no one seems to know what the bloody hell is going on this time:
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been stretchered out of her home and rushed tto the accident and emergency ward of a London hospital.
The singer was seen being wheeled out of her north London home just after 8.40pm this evening by paramedics, as her beleaguered father Mitch Winehouse watched.
Paramedics were called by father Mitch after Amy reportedly suffered an episode of ‘fitting’. Her spokesperson said the singer had ’suffered a reaction to medication’.
She was then taken to the accident and emergency department of UCH where she has been admitted.
it feels wrong to be sincerely hoping that she actually did suffer a reaction to medication, because I’m sure I’m not the only person in the world assuming that suffering a “reaction” to some “medication” is probably the more likely cause at hand. Watch this space. More » 
Let This Be A Lesson To Those Of You Who Think A Cut Finger Is No Obstacle To Television Overlord Status
12:43PM Clem Bastow | Sometimes we get so caught up in noting just how royally fucked Channel Nine seems that we forget there are just as many interesting things going on at the other networks.
To wit, a life-and-death struggle over at Seven, where network boss David Leckie remains in a coma – yes, a coma – which he fell into after developing a blood infection from little more than a badly cut finger sustained in an accident at his home (something rather grim-sounding involving his garage roller door).
Mr Leckie was admitted to St Vincent’s Private Hospital on April 11 and slipped into a critical condition on Thursday after taking a grave turn for the worse.
His condition stabilised on Friday, and hospital spokesman David Faktor said today the network chief had made “a tiny improvement” over the weekend, although he remained precariously ill.
“He remains in a serious but stable condition. He remains in intensive care but all the signs show he is improving,” Mr Faktor said.
Mr Leckie is being ventilated and is in an induced coma while doctors work to help his body fight the infection. His wife Skye and brother have been by his bedside.
Defamer Australia send their warmest well-wishes to the Leckie family and the extended Seven fraternity, and hope that the gnomes over at Nine HQ take a timeout from boning each other to offer the same sympathies to their rival network. More » 
