Yup. My father died from alcohol withdrawal. He went into the military hospital for relatively minor surgery and didn't tell the doctors he was a fifth-a-day alcoholic. He had a seizure in the recovery room, his heart stopped and they couldn't get it started again.
The death certificate listed the cause of death as heart failure, but the doctor told my mom that it was alcohol withdrawal - he just didn't want to put that on the certificate because it would reflect badly on the military.
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Date: 7 June 2007 22:51 (UTC)The death certificate listed the cause of death as heart failure, but the doctor told my mom that it was alcohol withdrawal - he just didn't want to put that on the certificate because it would reflect badly on the military.