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Miami Herald
7 days ago
- Health
- Miami Herald
Miami plastic surgery center suspended for inadequate drugs, BBL patient exams
'Perfection' starts the name of a Sunny Isles Beach plastic surgery center that fell short enough of its name in patient safety violations to get its license suspended for 30 days. From a suite in the high rise at 16690 Collins Ave., Perfection Plastic Surgery & Med Spa sells Brazilian butt lifts (BBL), breast jobs, mommy makeovers and penis augmentation. But, Perfection got put on hiatus until July 12 for lacking the drugs an office surgery center should have, inadequate BBL patient exams among other violations. Management refused comment when a Miami Herald reporter dropped by the office. State corporate records say Perfection's run by president Iris Kogan and Angela Kogan is its registered agent. Perfection inspection problems Perfection received office surgery registration license OSR1709 on Sept. 19, 2022 and received a Florida Department of Health inspection visit on Dec. 6, 2022. An administrative complaint was filed Aug. 16, 2024 listing the major problems found. ▪ The crash cart, the cart with the medical emergency equipment, lacked required drugs: Atropine 3 mg, used for dangerously slowing heart rate, according to the University of North Carolina; Epinephrine 1mg in 10ml, which treats increased heart rate and possibly fatal allergic reactions; Dextrose 50%; 50 ml, which treats hypoglycemia, a dangerous drop in glucose. ▪ Perfection didn't have benzodiazepine, which the Cleveland Clinic defines as 'medications that make your nervous system less active.' ▪ Perfection's risk management program, 'on one or more noncompliant' or, at the time of inspection, nonexistent. ▪ Before a surgery, surgeons should, in writing, let the patient know of a hospital where the surgeon can perform the same surgery about to be done at Perfection or the hospital where the surgeon or Perfection has a transfer agreement. Perfection's surgeons — which aren't listed on the website, unlike most other surgery centers — didn't do the above, at least once. The Florida Department of Health returned in August 2023 for another inspection in which the violations were detailed in a December 2024 administrative complaint. ▪ The crash cart still didn't have the Atropine and Dextrose, but now also was bereft of Magnesium sulfate 2 grams, also called 'epsom salts' which treats a variety of seizures and heart rate abnormalities; and Lidocaine, 100 mg, which treats 'life-threatening arrhythmias,' North Carolina said. ▪ At least one, possibly more, surgeons doing BBLs 'failed to conduct an in-person examination of a patient no later than the day before the patient's procedure.'
Hindustan Times
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Book Box: How to build a mountain house
Dear Reader, These days I am either waiting for electricians or stonemasons or plumbers. Building a house in the mountains sounds romantic I know —but wait until you spend long moments arguing with a wood polish man who insists ebony is chestnut brown. When the cement work goes awry, I take a deep breath, and think of Peter Mayle doing repairs on a farmhouse in the French countryside in A Year in Provence. Mayle's genius is turning disaster into comedy, his self-deprecating charm making even the most infuriating mishaps feel like part of the adventure. That's the spirit, I tell myself. Someday, this will be a funny story too. Smile - and take all the squelch and snafus in your stride. Never mind that the wooden beams have been laid in the wrong direction, that the electricity has been gone all day and that the wood polish man is still insisting his shade of ebony is identical to the chestnut brown sample - surely this will make a good story. And surely Peter Mayle endured all this and worse. And after all isn't this the life-in-the-Himalayan-mountains-dream that we city types are forever chasing ? In the evenings, I return to the little room by the building site, too exhausted to do much else but gaze at the ceiling above me. Are those rafters even symmetrical and why on earth is there a gap between the beams - and why is this trailing black wire tacked on top — my brain refuses to shut down. Then I open a little novella by Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico, aptly entitled Perfection. I mean to escape into a book that will soothe me - instead I find one that holds up a mirror to me. Shortlisted for this year's International Booker Prize, this novella dissects the illusions of aesthetic perfection. It tells the story of Tom and Anna, two designers who live in Berlin - in a light filled art deco apartment with tangled foliage, where plants shelter in the nook of a bay window, complete with a Scandinavian farm chair, and an artfully placed magazine left face-down on the seat. Theirs is the perfect life, going to art galleries, working on their laptops after lazy lunches in trendy cafes. Their world is beautiful, but it's also a performance, an illusion of a carefully created life. And Latronico's brilliance lies in exposing the fissures beneath this curated existence. Is this what I do too, I wonder ? Do I curate my reality ? I pick my phone and scroll through the pictures I sent my friends. Each one tells a beautiful story. In one shot from our picnic by a waterfall, my friends are stretched out onto a sunlit rock. In another, their two black dogs are splashing in the green foam flecked water against mountainsides covered with deodar trees. It all looks blissful and idyllic - a far cry from spending all day sweltering in the sun waiting for a stone mason. The next morning, sunlight floods the room, and for a moment, I consider staging the perfect shot—laptop on a blue blanket, mountains in the background, the illusion of effortless creativity. But Perfection has made me hyper aware of the frames we choose. And of what lies outside the frame of my iPhone. I look again. And now I see the greasy omelette on a melamine plate, the chaos of half-unpacked boxes, and sneakers gritty with construction debris. 'Reality didn't often live up to the pictures. In the mornings it often would.' says the narrator in Perfection. It's a line that lingers with me. The magic of books like these is how they reflect our own contradictions back at us. Reading Mayle has taught me to laugh at the mess; Latronico teaches me to see beyond the frame. And when this house is finally standing, I'll owe its soul not to the perfect beams, but to the crooked ones—and the books that helped me love them. And you dear Reader, do you have your own frames? What do you capture and what do you leave out ? (Sonya Dutta Choudhury is a Mumbai-based journalist and the founder of Sonya's Book Box, a bespoke book service. Each week, she brings you specially curated books to give you an immersive understanding of people and places. If you have any reading recommendations or reading dilemmas, write to her at sonyasbookbox@ The views expressed are personal.) Get 360° coverage—from daily headlines to 100 year archives.
RTÉ News
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Dublin Literature Fest
From May 16th-25th, International Literature Festival Dublin brings over 200 events across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, film, music and performance to Dublin's Merrion Square. Below, we've selected 10 must-see events at the capital's premiere book bash... Headliners include trailblazing US writer, cultural critic and commentator Roxane Gay, who brings her unique brand of radical honesty to Dublin on Thursday 22nd May. Vincenzo Latronico and Naoise Dolan discuss why writing is about breaking things in order to put them back together again on Friday 16th. Seen through the eyes of two Berlin-based hipsters, Latronico's International Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted novel Perfection astutely skewers contemporary privilege and the disparity between social media and real life. Faith in globalisation has been fatally undermined by the pandemic, energy crisis, tariff and trade frictions and power rivalry. What if globalisation fails is the subject on Friday 16th, when journalist Ben Chu, Policy and Analysis Correspondent at BBC Verify, discusses his book Exile Economics with barrister Ingrid Miley, formerly RTÉ Industry and Employment Correspondent. The Mind Keeps the Score (Tuesday 20th) features ABC News Chief International Correspondent James Longman, whose experiences with depression prompted him to wonder if he had inherited mental illness, and specialist psychotherapist Owen O'Kane, one of the UK's leading mental health experts. They discuss their fascinating new books, The Inherited Mind (Longman) and Addicated to Anxiety (O'Kane). With the controversial relationship between AI and literature a major news topic, The Cost of Truth (Wednesday 21st) sees authors Jo Callaghan and Ian Green talking to Adrian Weckler, Irish Independent technology editor. AI researcher Callaghan's spellbinding mystery Human Remains features the world's first AI detective, while Green's novel Extremophile is a breakneck biohacking thriller set in climate-collapse London. Discover how the stories around Irish words reveal a unique perspective on Ireland's landscape, weather, relationships, feelings and the body on Friday 23rd when Hector Ó hEochagáin tells Patrick Freyne about his award-winning Irish Words You Should Know, described by Tommy Tiernan as "The best book on the Irish language I have ever read". Modern retellings can transform our understanding of a novel. On Sunday 25th, Aimée de Jongh, Xiaolu Guo and Clara Kumagai talk to Martina Devlin about finding inspiration in classic literature: respectively, Lord of the Flies, Moby Dick and Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Also on the 25th, Serhii Plokhy, Professor of History at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, discusses his gripping account of the chaos and disaster that unfolded at Ukraine's nuclear plant from the first day of Russia's 2022 invasion. A remarkable story of uncertainty and courage, Chernobyl Roulette sounds the alarm about the dangers of nuclear sites in these unprecedented times. In a packed programme of stories, songs, drawing, and writing for children of all ages, two highlights include The Ultimate Comic Creation Event with comic book artist Will Sliney on Sunday 18th May, where he'll get everyone drawing Spider-Man. On Saturday 24th May, author and illustrator Laura Ellen Anderson, creator of Amelia Fang, introduces Marnie Midnight the moon-loving moth in Make Your Own Minibeast on the Minibeast Mission!
Metro
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Dannii Minogue fears she could have died over 'brutal' comparisons to Kylie
Dannii Minogue is confident she 'wouldn't be alive now' if she wasn't 'mentally strong' enough to cope with constant comparison to her sister Kylie Minogue. The 53-year-old singer and TV presenter has reflected on 'brutal' body comparisons people made between her and older sister Kylie, 56, admitting they lasted years. 'The hardest time I had was not long after I arrived in the UK, photographers were literally throwing themselves on the ground to get angles and shoot up your dress and skirt. It was horrendous. I was 19 when I arrived,' Dannii recalled. Speaking on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast, the Home and Away star explained: 'I've said this to my friends, 'I know that, if I wasn't mentally strong and I did have any kind of eating disorder or something, I wouldn't be alive now.' That is fact. 'It was so brutal, and it went on for years.' The Perfection hitmaker has a curvier body shape than her sibling, and recalled it was hard to deal with so many 'nasty comments' when 'slim' was the only body shape 'accepted' in their 90s heyday. She said: 'I was compared to my sister, who's always had a completely different body shape our entire lives. 'I wasn't living up to her body. At the time, the only body shape that was accepted was slim. 'I was a square trying to fit into a hole. You read back now how nasty the comments were.' While Dannii suffered through it at the time, the experience caught up with her later on in life. 'It did have a delayed effect later on. I looked back with time to reflect and breathe, and I felt like an idiot,' Dannii said. 'Why did I stay in that position where I allowed that to happen? But it was the industry. 'If you wanted that job as a female pop singer in the 90s, this is what it looks like,' she added, explaining that she viewed this treatment as a condition of having her career. 'Looking back I'm angry with myself, mad. But proud of myself, what else could I do?' she asked. Despite the body bashing, Dannii went on to achieve plenty of success in her career, including nine UK top 10 songs, and she also joined the panel of TV talent show The X Factor around its peak. Dannii was a judge for four series, from 2007 to 2010, but eventually realised she 'didn't want to be a part of it any more', and she 'dug deep' before announcing her departure. She explained: 'On my last season of X Factor, 20 million people watched the final, but I just got to a point where I didn't want to be a part of it any more.' It still was an 'incredible experience', Dannii said, but added: 'I dug deep into myself and found some strength [to quit].' She concluded: 'I thought, this show is going that way. In my soul, I'm going in a completely different direction.' Another tough experience Dannii recalled in the podcast happened when her marriage to Julian McMahon ended in 1995. 'When my marriage all fell apart it wasn't just being brokenhearted, it was being broke,' she revealed. 'I had no money in the bank, I was borrowing money from my family and trying to make it work and dealing with an industry that was very, very tough. That was the darkest, hardest time I've been through.' The only thing that got her through the rough years, Dannii said, was her strong family support system. More Trending On welcoming her child Ethan Smith in 2010, Dannii moved back to Australia from the UK. 'I had my baby and I wanted to be around my family,' Dannii explained, saying her instinct was to to cocoon for a while with her nearest and dearest, despite fears for her career. Although she took a step back, the Neighbours star's working life continues to flourish in her fifties. She is currently working on BBC Three's I Kissed A Boy; a show which she says it the first she's been involved in to properly look after her mental health. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you.
The Hindu
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
World Book Day 2025: 5 unmissable reads that cross borders and stay with you
Books don't just tell stories; they build bridges across time, cultures and perspectives. This World Book Day, celebrate the power of storytelling and literature to challenge how we see the world and our place in it. Whether you're curled up at home or listening on the go, the right story can transport you across borders – no passport required. With a collection of over 16,000 books and more than 2,500 audio and e-books spanning different genres, the British Council's Digital Library offers readers a treasure trove of thought-provoking titles from around the world that inspire and prompt conversation. This year, the British Council spotlights five remarkable works in translation that speak to our most pressing emotions and complexities – displacement, digital burnout, memory, resilience and care. These stories, though rooted in specific cultures, transcend borders to offer universal truths. 1. Under the Eye of the Big Bird – by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda From one of Japan's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, Under the Eye of the Big Bird is a speculative masterpiece that reimagines life on Earth after humans have nearly gone extinct. In this distant future, scattered tribes live under the care of mysterious 'Mothers.' Told through fourteen interconnected episodes spanning geological ages, this quietly profound novel is both mournful and hopeful. Blending science and myth, it offers a poetic and unsettling vision of the end of humanity – and what might emerge in its place. 2. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories – by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq vividly captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Originally published in Kannada, these twelve stories reflect her background as a journalist and lawyer, with a sharp focus on women's rights and resistance to caste and religious injustice. Praised for their dry humour and vivid style, the stories are filled with unforgettable characters – spirited children, outspoken grandmothers, and resilient mothers navigating complex emotions. Mushtaq's writing showcases her as a keen observer of human nature and a powerful storyteller. 3. Perfection – by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes Anna and Tom – a millennial expat couple – seem to be living an idyllic life surrounded by plants, parties, and filtered social media moments in Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection. As digital creatives, their world is curated to appear flawless, yet beneath the surface lies a growing sense of dissatisfaction and disconnection. Their relationships, careers, and political efforts all begin to feel hollow, as they search for meaning in a life built on appearances. Translated by Sophie Hughes, the novel exposes the emptiness at the heart of curated modern living. Blending sharp social commentary with a stylish, minimalist narrative, Perfection is a striking exploration of identity, authenticity, and the subtle despair of a generation caught in the glow of its own image. 4. Small Boat – by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson Small Boat is a poetic and haunting novella from France that reflects on grief, guilt, and moral responsibility. Blending fiction with real events, it is inspired by the 2021 tragedy in the English Channel, where 27 migrants died after their calls for help were mishandled. The narrator – a call handler accused of failing in her duty – offers a quiet yet powerful meditation on blame, asking why one person should carry the weight of a crisis shaped by war, politics, and indifference. Vincent Delecroix crafts a deeply philosophical tale, adrift in memory, sorrow, and unanswered questions. Through Helen Stevenson's delicate translation, Small Boat becomes both a voice of protest and a lament. 5. A Leopard-Skin Hat – by Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson Anne Serre's A Leopard-Skin Hat is a poignant, dreamlike novella centred on an intense childhood friendship between the narrator and Fanny, a young woman grappling with deep psychological struggles. Through a series of short, elegant scenes, Serre explores the narrator's unwavering devotion and emotional turmoil, capturing the delicate dance between hope and despair that defines their bond. Moving and subtly surreal, the story blurs the line between reality and imagination, infused with Serre's trademark wit and stylistic grace. Beautifully translated by Mark Hutchinson, the novella is both a tribute to a life cut short and a quiet meditation on grief, love, and the complexities of care. These five books demonstrate how stories can be deeply personal yet universally resonant. Perfect for World Book Day, each title is a small gem of cross-cultural imagination, offering a portal to the strange and sublime. Whether you're seeking stories that challenge, comfort, or connect, these voices from around the world invite you to read beyond the familiar – and rediscover the transformative power of literature.
