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About a dozen people staged a demonstration Sunday outside the Manhattan health clinic where Joan Rivers’ heart stopped.
Members of Citizens for Safe Endoscopy flocked to Yorkville Endoscopy on the Upper East Side, where the comedian went into cardiac arrest during minor throat surgery in September 2014, to demand that doctors tell patients about a safer procedure.
About a dozen people staged a demonstration Sunday outside the Manhattan health clinic where Joan Rivers’ heart stopped.
The five-minute alternative — called a transnasal esophagoscopy — doesn’t require that patients undergoing esophageal surgery be sedated, which can cause complications. And it might have even saved Rivers’ life.
“The bottom line is the surgery will save lives because it doesn’t use anesthetics,” David Schwartz, a spokesman for Citizens for Safe Endoscopy, declared at the demonstration attended by roughly 15 people.
The group supports a bill put forward by New York Assemblyman David Weprin that would force doctors to inform patients about the cheaper alternative procedure, in which patients sit up and are probed through a nasal passage.
A Yorkville Endoscopy anesthesiologist is at the center of a medical-malpractice lawsuit filed by Rivers’ daughter, Melissa.
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