Monday, December 1, 2014
Joan Rivers' Doctors Even Worse Than Previously Thought
Because a week can't go by without getting more disappointing news about how Joan Rivers died, Page Six reports that as her pulse dropped to dangerously low levels, her doctors continued with the surgery. Once she went into cardiac arrest, the doctors tried to revive her themselves for ten minutes before calling 911. Once EMTs arrived on the scene, they were able to get her heart started again and give her oxygen, but it was past the cut-off time for probable brain damage. Based on commentary from other medical professionals, it seems that every decision made by doctors Lawrence Cohen and Gwen Korovin was the wrong one. Though she was a polarizing public figure, she was a loving mother and grandmother and clearly died before her time.
I hope this teaches doctors somethig: dont play godcwith payients lives.
ReplyDeleteStill too sad. She was robbed of her final years with her family. I can't imagine their grief.
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem with being friends with your doctor. Instead of being extra careful their judgement becomes clouded, thinking because they really care for the patient that they can give the best care.
ReplyDeleteI got over the selfie thing because I really do think Joan would have laughed at that. What a light she was :)
Funny, I remember people claiming to be in the nursing or medical field commenting in articles at the time hinted that maybe Joan was not being monitored properly -that they were not monitoring her heart rate as you should with ANY patient under anesthesia, this is where Conrad Murray made his fatal mistake, too busy on the damn cell phone and I couldn't understand why a clinic would need to call an ambulance, you got the sense it was too late by then.
ReplyDeleteThat they didn't trach her immediately should be grounds for professional discipline. And this a*hole doctor:
ReplyDeleteKorovin was not authorized to practice at the clinic, and Rivers never signed a consent form for the two laryngoscopies that Korovin would conduct, according to a federal Department of Health and Human Services report.
He's said in that article to also be/having been the doctor to Julie Andrews. I wonder if it's the same one who botched her surgery in '97 that left her without a singing voice and resulted in a major lawsuit.
@Seven Andrews lawsuit was against Scott Kessler.
DeleteFrom the NY Post, 9/7/2000
Andrews, 64, filed the suit last December against Dr. Scott M. Kessler and another doctor, Dr. Jeffrey Libin, at Mount Sinai Medical Center. But Kessler was the only defendant left in the suit, because Andrews dropped her case against Libin and Mount Sinai.
What doctor needs to call 911?
ReplyDeleteWen, a smart one when he knows he's in over his head.
Delete@Wen, an off-site clinic would not have the capacity to deal with that trauma. Even their crash carts aren't fully equipped (I know, right?!). They would call 911 so that she could be transferred to a fully staffed trauma center/ER facility. Even in the field, EMTs have full crash carts and an EMT, trained in emergency trauma procedures, would know that you don't go 10 minutes past a major monitor alert.
ReplyDeleteWow there was no medical consent for the two laryngoscopies, well sounding like a slam dunk for Melissa.
ReplyDeleteThough we all know Melissa would rather have her mother back.
DeleteI find it hard to believe that at the moment the doctors knew that Joan Rivers was in trouble, they couldn't start working on her and say to a nurse "Hey! Call 911".
ReplyDeleteI also find it hard to believe that a physician's office where anesthesia was being administered would not have a defibrillator. Jeez, commercial airlines have them on-board.
I suspect that if they had been able to revive her, this story would never have seen the light of day. The doctors and staff would never have told anyone (not even Rivers).
My friend's workplace has a defibrillator and the staff have regular reviews on its use.
ReplyDeleterip joan.. this is so sad during the holidays
ReplyDeleteYeah, it stinks alright. Bigtime.
ReplyDeleteWe did a big fund raising campaign and got a defibrillator for my daughters school. Thankfully we haven't had to use it yet, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
ReplyDeleteI think we're the first one in North Dublin to get one too.