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VIDEO: Medical Industry Call for Action At Place Where Joan Rivers Met Her Fate…

New York Assemblyman David Weprin, Bill Drake of the Esophageal Cancer Awareness Association and David Schwartz of Citizens for Safe Endoscopy gather at the medical office where comedian Joan Rivers died as a result of an unsafe procedure.

NY Post: Clinic where Joan Rivers died urged to adopt safer practices

Members of Citizens for Safe Endoscopy flocked to Yorkville Endoscopy on the Upper East Side, where the Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest during minor throat surgery in September 2014, to demand that doctors tell patients about a safer procedure.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Assemblyman David Weprin, Citizens for Safe Endoscopy Join to Propose Life-Saving, Cost-Cutting ‘Upper Endoscopy Reform Act’

New York State Assemblyman David Weprin, Citizens for Safe Endoscopy and Bill Drake of the Esophageal Cancer Awareness Association to introduce the “Upper Endoscopy Reform Act”

Daily News: Sedated endoscopic procedures, like Joan Rivers’, waste $15B

From the New York Daily News: The medical community, medical device makers and government agencies are allowing patients to blow billions a year by allowing unnecessary endoscopic procedures. Members of the medical community, certain medical device manufacturers and government regulatory agencies are allowing patients to spend an extra $15 billion dollars a year by allowing [...]

Morning Consult: David Schwartz on Skyrocketing Health Costs, Obamacare, and the Special Interests

The higher cost of living longer is one important variable that cannot be attributed to the expensive Obamacare jig saw puzzle. But what about the role of the health care industry itself?

Radio: David Schwartz on TNE and the Tragic Death of Joan Rivers

Citizens for Safe Endoscopy spokesman, David Schwartz on The Ed Tyll Show about transnasal esophogoscopy and the tragic death of Joan Rivers.

RADIO: David Schwartz on America Tonight Radio – Safer Endoscopy

Citizens for Safe Endoscopy's David Schwartz joins host Kate Delaney to talk about the hidden secret about the dangers of endoscopy and easily available solution the medical industry doesn't want you to know about.

Dr. Jonathan Aviv discusses upper endoscopy, TNE, and the risk of endoscopic cross contamination on WFAN

Voice and Swallowing Center Clinical Director Dr. Jonathan Aviv discusses upper endoscopy, transnasal esophagoscopy, and the risk of endoscopic cross contamination with WFAN's Bob Salter.