By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The daughter of Joan Rivers filed a malpractice lawsuit on Monday against the New York clinic that treated her mother days before her death last year, saying botched medical procedures by poorly trained doctors there cost the entertainer her life. Rivers, who was 81, suffered a loss of oxygen to her brain on Aug. 28 while physicians at the Yorkville Endoscopy center in Manhattan were performing procedures to examine her throat and vocal cords, and she died a week later at a New York hospital. Moreover, the complaint says, the outpatient clinic allowed a doctor whose presence was unauthorized to twice conduct a procedure that Rivers had not consented to, a trans-nasal laryngoscopy, in which a scope is passed through sinus passages into the larynx. The malpractice case was filed by the pioneering comedienne's only child, her daughter Melissa, in New York state Supreme Court seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
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