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Doc who performed on Joan Rivers denies wrongdoing: lawsuit

Doc who performed on Joan Rivers denies wrongdoing: lawsuit

The doctor who allegedly posed for pictures while performing an unauthorized procedure on Joan Rivers and then fled when the legendary comedian’s essential signs started plummeting is breaking her silence and denying she did anything incorrect.

Gwen Korovin, a laryngologist who’s been dubbed “the patron saint of Broadway singers and actors,” says she “was uninformed of any pictures being taken” during her ill-fated laryngoscopy of Rivers last…

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Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa files suit in mother’s death

Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa files suit in mother’s death
Dan Steinberg/AP Joan Rivers, 81, went under the knife for the last time on Aug. 28. Her daughter Melissa is now suing over her death.

Joan Rivers’ daughter filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit Monday against the clinic and the doctors who treated her mother last August, charging that their negligence triggered…

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EXCLUSIVE: FDNY searching for Joan Rivers 911 info leakers

EXCLUSIVE: FDNY searching for Joan Rivers 911 info leakers
Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images The FDNY has launched a probe of nearly a dozen EMS workers after learning they accessed the 911 emergency records tied to Joan Rivers’ death, the…
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Joan Rivers Surgeon Thinks Anesthesiologists Are a Waste of Money for Throat Procedure

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…

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Doc Rivers — No Bad Blood Between Clippers Players

Doc Rivers — No Bad Blood Between Clippers Players

Doc Rivers is calling BS on reports that his Clippers players don’t get along — telling TMZ Sports, “We all like each additional.”

Questions have surrounded the Clip squad after a report from an NBA insider that the team — comprised of stars like Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul — simply “don’t like each additional.”

But last night in L.A., Rivers shot down…

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Feds slam clinic where Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest

Feds slam clinic where Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest
KM/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES/KM/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES Joan Rivers died in September, days after she went into cardiac arrest during a routine procedure at Yorkville Endoscopy.

It was a tragicomedy of errors.

In a blistering report released Monday, the feds ripped the…

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Joan Rivers — Cause of Death May Remain Mystery … Because NO AUTOPSY

Joan Rivers — Cause of Death May Remain Mystery … Because NO AUTOPSY

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We may never know exactly what killed Joan Rivers … because a choice was made NOT to do an autopsy … TMZ has learned.

Sources connected to the NYC Medical Examiner tell us … Melissa Rivers was despondent when Joan died and told doctors she did not want an autopsy performed.  According to New York law, doctors will honor such a request…

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Joan Rivers — Sources Says Someone Screwed Up

Joan Rivers — Sources Says Someone Screwed Up

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Someone did something incorrect in the medical procedure that led to Joan Rivers‘ death … this according to one source caught up in the investigation.

The Medical Examiner has said the death was the result of a therapeutic, predictable complication. Sources tell us … the complication did NOT involve the Propofol administered to Joan. The complication was the result of the procedure itself.

The source…

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Joan Rivers died of ‘therapeutic complication’

Joan Rivers died of ‘therapeutic complication’
LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS Comedian Joan Rivers was undergoing an endoscopy at an High East Side clinic when she died. Anthony…
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Joan Rivers’ four pooches will not have it ruff

Joan Rivers’ four pooches will not have it ruff
Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Joan Rivers’ dogs will be taken care of by a longtime supporter.

Joan Rivers has left her $ 150 million fortune to daughter Melissa Rivers, her grandson Cooper and, perhaps most importantly, to her four beloved rescue pups.

“Those dogs…

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