14 DAY TRIAL // As the world slowly comes to terms with the fact that Joan Rivers passed away yesterday at the age of 81, there is a new interesting theory floating around on the Internet, claiming that the actress' death was an accident and that she needn't have died.
Radar claims that Joan, although 81 years old, was still strong days before her death, which makes her passing that more curious. She was taking on gigs and performing on stage as late as 12 hours before undergoing the procedure, so this begs the question why she died so suddenly.
A source close to the family claims that Rivers was actually given a clean bill of health by her doctor before the operation, which means that she should have come out of her procedure without any problems. What then happened to turn things so pear-shaped?
Her daughter Melissa has been telling friends in confidence that she thinks that her mother would have still been alive today if she had had her procedure at a hospital rather than a private clinic. Rivers chose to undergo her vocal chords endoscopy at an out-patient clinic, so when she went into cardiac and respiratory arrest, an ambulance had to be called to rush her to the hospital.
Were she to receive attention sooner, the star might have been alive with us today still, claim some of her closest friends. “Apart from all of the cosmetic procedures Joan had had, she was in very good health for an 81-year-old woman. There was no indication from a medical standpoint that Joan should have suffered from any complications,” says a close friend.
The same friend explains that “It was a routine procedure that should have taken less than an hour, two hours in recovery, and then she would have gone home the same day.” Melissa herself is being quoted as saying off the record that “if Joan had the endoscopy at a hospital, she could have survived, because they are equipped to deal with a patient that crashes or suddenly has a problem.”
Ultimately, it was Joan who chose to have the procedure at the Yorkville Endoscopy clinic, fully trusting her gastroenterologist.
A source close to the case adds that “Even though it only took less than ten minutes to transfer Joan to Mount Sinai, that was critical time that was lost in transit.”
People suspected something went wrong at the clinic and there have been reports of people phoning in death threats to the staff because they have failed to do their job. The phenomenon was so bad that the police was called, the security was beefed up, and employees are sent home early every day.