Joan Rivers' voice doctor refutes 'abandonment' claims

The attorney for Joan Rivers' voice doctor Gwen Korovin has denied allegations that she left the room when the comedian went into cardiac arrest.

The lawyer William Lewis said  Korovin never left the room and was the last doctor to leave the room after Rivers was taken away by EMS in an ambulance, the ABC News reported.

Melissa Rivers claimed in her lawsuit that Korovin performed an unauthorised transnasal laryngoscopy on her mother, even though she had no right to perform any medical procedures or render any medical services at the clinic. She also alleged that Yorkville Endoscopy's former medical director, Lawrence Cohen, took cell phone photos with the sedated comedian and Korovin and said Rivers will like to see these in the recovery area.

Jeffrey B Bloom, Melissa Rivers' attorney, quashed Lewis' claims by saying that she may have stayed at the facility, but she clearly wasn't in the procedure room and offered/provided no assistance. Bloom added that on the other hand, leaving the room when you're the airway specialist is tantamount to abandonment.