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The details behind the medical treat of Joan Rivers have been trickling out since her passing almost two weeks ago. CNN is reporting some shocking details tonight revolving around witness claims that Rivers’ personal doctor allgedly took a selfie and biopsied the comedian before the cardiac arrest that sent her to hospital, eventually ending her life. From CNN:
A staff member at Manhattan’s Yorkville Endoscopy clinic told investigators that the doctor, who has not been publicly identified, took a selfie photo in the procedure room while Rivers was under anesthesia, the source said.
Rivers, 81, was at the clinic for a scheduled endoscopy by another doctor, gastroenterologist Dr. Lawrence Cohen. That procedure, intended to help diagnose her hoarse voice and sore throat, involved the insertion of a camera down her throat.
After Cohen, the clinic’s medical director, finished his work, a biopsy was done on Rivers without her prior consent, according to the source.
Cohen has already stepped down from his position at the endoscopy clinic where the incident took place, but the identity of the other doctor has not been released.
Even with these details, the Yorkville Clinic is claiming that the biopsy did not cause Rivers’ death and that their doctors were certified. If these new revelations prove to be true though, it would cast doubt on those claims. You could probably even say that the fact the biopsy happened at all is enough to cast a shadow over everything.
(Via CNN)