The NHS saved me. As a scientist, I must help to save it | Stephen Hawking
by Stephen Hawking from on (#2ZMM1)
The crisis in the health service has been created by politicians who want to privatise it - when public opinion, and the evidence, point in the opposite direction
Like many people, I have personal experience of the NHS. In my case, medical care, personal life and scientific life are all intertwined. I have received a large amount of high-quality NHS treatment and would not be here today if it were not for the service.
The care I have received since being diagnosed with motor neurone disease as a student in 1962 has enabled me to live my life as I want, and to contribute to major advances in our understanding of the universe. In July I celebrated my 75th birthday with an international science conference in Cambridge. I still have a full-time job as director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and, with two colleagues, am soon to publish another scientific paper on quantum black holes.
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