How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years

"*Ahem* you don't know a thing about ALS, do you ? He was probably perfectly healthy until 21, at which point 1 diagnosis was (and is) pretty much all that could be done. As for disability aids, those were designed, operated and built by his "employer".
And as far as I believe that house he has as part of his position comes complete with a butler (read : he gets to hire someone for that)."

Rather than speculate, let us read Stephen Hawking's own words [telegraph.co.uk] about his debt to the NHS.

The telling paragraph:
"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS," he said. "I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."

I would say the last sentence qualifies as evidence for the parent's statement about Stephen Hawking owing his life to the NHS.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/Z-7srtFoKyw/how-stephen-hawking-has-defied-the-odds-for-50-years

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