Melissa Rivers Reflects on Joan Rivers's Final Hours

[marylander1940]

"I didn't have to tell her I loved her, she knew. She didn't have to tell me she loved me, I knew," says Melissa Rivers of the morning her mother, Joan Rivers, passed away, after one week in a medically induced coma.

 

Eight months to the day later, Melissa opened up on the Today show about her mother's tragic death and the legacy she left behind. In a previously released clip from the interview, Rivers called her mother's death "100 percent preventable." Monday morning, she got more specific.

 

Rivers checked into Yorkville Endoscopy in New York City the morning of August 28, 2014; she was there to receive a routine endoscopy. During the procedure, Rivers stopped breathing and would never do so on her own again. Allegations of malpractice and ineptitude have dogged the clinic since Joan Rivers's death.

 

When asked by Matt Lauer which of the doctors's alleged transgressions hurt her the most, Rivers said, "I think the selfie. There was a story circulating that, during the procedure, the doctors were taking selfies of themselves, with my mother, while they were working on my mom."

 

That story comes from a report by the Health Department which found that one of the doctors in the operating room did take a photo during the procedure.

 

Melissa Rivers has filed a malpractice suit against Yorkville Endoscopy.

 

"If something happens and everyone does everything properly, things happen. You live with it," Rivers explained. "When it's error after error after error after error after behaviors that you cannot even begin to get your head around, you get mad."

 

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[+ WilliamM]

"If something happens and everyone does everything properly, things happen. You live with it," Rivers explained. "When it's error after error after error after error after behaviors that you cannot even begin to get your head around, you get mad."

 

So true. There is always a risk in a medical proceedure. But, this risk was very, very small if everyone had acted correctly. I am not a huge Joan Rivers fan, but my heart goes out to her daughter (and has since August).

[AdamSmith]

My ENT doc says there is a standard muscle paralytic agent to administer in cases of laryngeal spasm such as Joan suffered, which the clinic should have had on hand, but whose use requires a $20,000 machine of some kind (entubation/ventilator? Can't recall) that some practices, Yorkville apparently included, are too cheap to buy.

 

He predicts Yorkville will one way or another, rightfully, be hounded out of business.

[whipped guy]

My ENT doc says there is a standard muscle paralytic agent to administer in cases of laryngeal spasm such as Joan suffered, which the clinic should have had on hand, but whose use requires a $20,000 machine of some kind (entubation/ventilator? Can't recall) that some practices, Yorkville apparently included, are too cheap to buy.

 

He predicts Yorkville will one way or another, rightfully, be hounded out of business.

I can't imagine how given all the publicity that Yorkville is still in business!!!

 

When the court proceedings related to the malpractice suit disclose all the details... if it ever goes gets to court that is... I somehow sense a big out of court settlement... we might get the total story... Either way it's most likely not a good scenario for Yorkville.