Dr Gwen Korovin, who was allegedly unauthorised to practise at the
Yorkville Endoscopy Clinic in Manhattan where Joan passed away after a
routine endoscopy caused her to go into cardiac arrest last month.
Although the medical centre's director Dr Lawrence Cohen stepped down
following the death of the star aged 88, it is believed Dr Korovin has
continued working and accepting new patients at the practice.
A close friend of the Rivers family told MailOnline: "Melissa does
plan to sue the clinic. It's very difficult to discuss something so
unpleasant with her, but she is going to launch a lawsuit."
According to CNN, clinic workers claim both Dr Cohen and Dr Korovin
were treating the late star in the hours leading up to her death with
Dr Korovin performing an initial laryngoscopy followed by an endoscopy
to help determine the cause of a sore throat and hoarseness she was
suffering from.
Dr Cohen then ordered Dr Korovin to perform a second endoscopy and
laryngoscopy - during which Joan's vocal chords are said to have
swollen, cutting off the oxygen supply to her lungs and leading to the
cardiac arrest that killed her.
Rivers claims Dr Korovin was unauthorised to practise the procedure
and was only meant to observe Dr Cohen as she was not certified to
practise by the clinic and therefore outside of the regulations of New
York health law. However, the upper east side clinic is denying
reports that the vocal chord biopsy was performed.
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