The doctor who performed the endoscopy that led to Joan Rivers’ cardiac arrest and eventual death in early September has been asked to step down at Yorkville Endoscopy.

Dr. Lawrence Cohen, who performed Rivers’ procedure, “is not currently performing procedures at Yorkville Endoscopy; nor is he currently serving as medical director,” according to a statement given to ABC News reports. Previously, Dr. Cohen was the clinic’s medical director and gastroenterologist.

After a procedure on August 28, the comedian spent a week on life support in New York’s Mount Sinai hospital and died on September 4 at age 81.

Although the clinic gave no reason for Cohen’s freeze, a source said it was because he let a specialist who was unaffiliated with the hospital examine Rivers, even though that doctor wasn’t authorized as a practitioner at Yorkville Endoscopy.

A representative from the hospital pointed to privacy laws as a reason for their lack of information.

“HIPAA laws prevent us from disclosing any information about patients,” the rep noted.

The New York State Health Department announced a little over a week ago that they would be investigating the procedures that led up to Rivers’ death, and this announcement may have stemmed in part from that.

As for the procedure, a close friend of Joan’s, Deborah Norville, described it as “a diagnostic procedure… [to] see why her voice had gotten raspy.”

Rivers’ funeral was held this past Sunday, on September 7.

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So, Grimes… Word on the street is that you’re scrapping your upcoming record and starting anew. We trust your judgment and everything — and your taste in shower-to-night footwear — but we have to ask: Are you suuuuure? And we’re not just saying that because we want new music so badly it hurts.

The New York Times reported Friday (September 12) that you said that your new music “sucked,” so you “threw it out and started again.” You also told the Grey Lady that your song “Go,” which you initially penned for Rihanna, didn’t rub your fans the right way. “It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them,” you said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio.’”

We get it. We get the need to innovate and create work that’s truly indicative of who you are. Your current situation — chilling in LA, making music and hanging with friends — also sounds pretty rad. But, we also have to wonder: Was the entire record worth scraping? Wasn’t there something there you think you might want to save?

So, dear Grimes, before you take out the trash, allow us to direct you to three hit projects that would never happened if the artist in question had given up. In the end, lady, we trust you — “Oblivion” was rad, after all, and you destroyed Pitchfork this year — but, you know… Just read on.

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In the dark era before everyone knew what Pitchfork was and music flowed as sweetly and abundantly as rainwater through the many tributaries of the Web, there were scant few places for weird suburban teens who loved tunes to feel like they belonged. One of the lights in the darkness, undoubtedly, was a little show called “Gilmore Girls,” replete with literary references, copious tunes and more autumnal scenes than one could shake a just-turned-scarlet leaf at.

And, friends, that miraculous show is primed to make a reentrance into the pop-cultural zeitgeist, as come October 1, the whole series will be invading Netflix accounts — and weird, alt-teen hearts — around the globe.

In honor of the early ’00s show’s return to the small and big screen, we’ve complied a list of musical moments that prove just how hipster the ladies of Stars Hollow were — before the word gotten dragged into the mainstream and slapped on everyone wearing a plaid shirt with a predilection for synth-pop.

1.) Rory Totally Discovered The Shins

Before “Garden State” and Zach Braff made The Shins a totally mainstream thing (lives were changed before you existed, oh! Natalie Portman-spun manic pixie dream girl), Rory asserted her loner status by listening to “Know Your Onion!” alone at her prep school lunch table. (The band was also on a weird college episode in which Rory and Paris kissed on Spring Break to impress dudes.)

2.) ‘Gilmore Girls’ Taught Us To Hate Corporate Shilling Via Nick ...