(NEW YORK POST) Joan Rivers might still be alive if the two throat specialists who performed her ill-fated August procedure had simply started CPR and called 911 when the 81-year-old comedienne first went into shock, according to medical sources with knowledge of the case.
But a shocking new play-by-play — pieced together from interviews, confidential EMT records and a federal report — shows that Yorkville Endoscopy’s now-former medical director, Dr. Lawrence Cohen, and Rivers’ own Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, celebrity ENT Dr. Gwen Korovin, continued to perform scoping procedures on her larynx and trachea for 14 minutes even as her pulse and blood pressure plummeted.
Even when Rivers went into cardiac arrest, Cohen and Korovin squandered an additional 10 minutes on their own unsuccessful resuscitation attempts before calling 911, according to EMT records obtained by The Post and a federal report released this month.
