Rivers’ doctor took selfie during throat procedure

Joan Rivers’ doctor took a selfie while performing an unauthorised procedure on the comedienne’s throat that caused her to stop breathing, according to reports.

The doctor — Rivers’ personal ear, nose and throat physician who has not yet been identified — was not authorised to practice at the clinic, Manhattan’s Yorkville Endoscopy, where Rivers had gone in for a routine endoscopy, according to CNN.

The source CNN spoke to said that Yorkville’s medical director, Dr Lawrence Cohen, who has since resigned from his post, stepped aside to let Rivers’ doctor — who snapped a selfie while Rivers was under anaesthesia — perform a biopsy without her prior consent.