Clinic that treated Joan Rivers cited for multiple failings

New York

THE New York outpatient clinic where the late Joan Rivers suffered cardiac arrest did not follow all the standard protocols during the throat procedures it conducted on the comedian, according to a government agency report.

Rivers died on Sept 4 at the age of 81 in a New York hospital a week after her heart stopped during the outpatient procedure at the Yorkville Endoscopy centre on Manhattan's Upper East Side.