Dick Clark Underwent Prostate Surgery Day Before Death

According to Dick Clark’s death certificate, he underwent prostate surgery the day he died from a heart attack. Doctors were treating benign prostatic hyperplasia — a procedure usually performed when it is difficult to urinate because the prostate is enlarged. The certificate notes that Clark suffered from acute urinary retention, and coronary artery disease, but he died from a heart attack. 

See Dick Clark Death Certificate: Prostate Surgery Before Heart Attack, TMZ, Apr. 23, 2012. 

Special thanks to David S. Luber (Attorney at law, Florida Probate Attorney Wills and Estates Law Firm) for bringing this article to my attention.