Friday, May 19, 2023

Medical Emergencies at a football match and a movie showing

A few minutes into the second fifteen-minute half of overtime in last night's second leg of the UEFA Europa Conference League semifinal between FC Basel and AC Fiorentina, play was interrupted for over ten minutes because of a medical emergency in the guest sector where the Fiorentina fans were sitting. (Deep in the resulting stoppage time, Fiorentina scored to win the semifinal.) I was reminded of an earlier experience in March 2007 with a medical emergency during a very intense moment near the end of a showing of Kevin McDonald's "The Last King of Scotland": a team of paramedics came in to take a member of the audience to the hospital. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 19 May 2023)

 

2007 post on Forest Whitaker and "The Last King of Scotland”.

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