Joan Rivers' doctor took a 'selfie' during her fatal surgery.

Joan Rivers was in surgery, and someone apparently paused to take a selfie.

Yes, you read that right.

A staff member at Manhattan’s Yorkville Endoscopy has told investigators that the doctor supposedly responsible for sending Joan into cardiac arrest, paused during the surgery to take a photo.

The source told investigators that the selfie was taken while Joan was under anaesthesia, and just moments before she went into cardiac arrest.

In recent news, we learned that an undisclosed doctor – an ear, nose and throat specialist not certified by the clinic (as required by law) – performed a biopsy on Joan’s vocal cord without the comedienne’s consent.

As reported by Mamamia last week:

Joan had been transferred to the Mount Sinai hospital from Yorkville Endoscopy, a clinic in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, when a complication in a routine endoscopy surgery had sent her into cardiac arrest on August 28th. It has since been reported that the doctors involved in the endoscopy surgery may have performed an operation they were not authorised to do.

During the surgery, one of the doctor’s noticed ‘something’ on one of the Fashion Police host’s vocal chords, a medical source told the New York Daily News. Another doctor offered to perform an immediate biopsy, a procedure that “should only be done in hospital. If she had been in a hospital when it happened, she would have been okay”, according to the source.

Apparently, the biopsy suddenly caused the comedian’s vocal chords’ to seize, cutting off her air supply and sending her into cardiac arrest, at which point Joan was rushed to the Mount Sinai hospital. She died a week later.

An investigation into the death of the 81-year-old Fashion Police host is still ongoing by the State Health Department. The clinic refused to comment on the alleged ‘selfie’ taken by the mystery doctor.

More to come.