Joan Rivers Surgeon Thinks Anesthesiologists Are a Waste of Money for Throat Procedure

Surgeon Thinks Anesthesiologists Are a Waste of Money For Throat Procedure

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The surgeon who performed the throat procedure on Joan Rivers the day she went into cardiac arrest wrote a article telling his fellow doctors it’s not cost-effective to have an anesthesiologist present for procedures like the one that killed Joan.

Dr. Lawrence Cohen — who was also the Medical Director of the…