Joan Rivers, Death of a Legend
I rarely comment on
specific cases of medical injury and this won’t be different. There is usually more to the story than we
will ever know and I don’t like to give energy to a situation that the
professionals are already reviewing.
But, it wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t comment on the death of Joan Riversjust because I am such a big fan of hers, the press surrounding her death and the
fact that her death came 2 weeks before our Comedy for a Cause, Patient Safety isn’t Funny But Laughter is Still the Best Medicine fund-raiser. She could have been a headliner but patient
safety is probably something her family has never even thought of.
Most people who have
never lived through a tragedy such as this don’t realize that it is not the
specifics of a case that matters, it’s that when someone goes in for medical
treatment, they are supposed to get better or at least not worse. Sure, all procedures are risky but for those
of us who have lived it, this public attention of Joan Rivers rocks some of us
to the core and trust must start all over again.
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