Stephen Hawking, nurse suspended for neglecting a scientist

(EFE) .- Patricia Dowdy, who was nurse of deceased British physicist Stephen Hawking, was suspended on Tuesday from the exercise of his office for failing to attend the scientist properly, announced the UK Council of Nursing and Obstetrics (NMC, for its acronym in English).

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The body, which regulates these professions in the country, said, after an independent investigation, that Dowdy did not provide "the standards of quality and professionalism expected and deserved by Professor Hawking".

The nurse, who had been working with the astrophysicist for 15 years, had received numerous complaints about Hawking, who had been suffering since 1964 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease that left him motionless and forced him to to communicate via a computer synthesizer. voice

According to the NMC, these charges included a lack of financial ethics, dishonesty, inability to provide the patient with adequate care, lack of qualifications and lack of cooperation with the organization. regulation itself.

The nurse, 61, stopped working for the scientist two years before his death, when the investigation into his alleged inappropriate behavior began.

A spokesman for the Hawking family said Tuesday in a statement that he had "full confidence" in the NMC's investigation and that he "trusted" in the "independent" conclusion based on "the facts".

Stephen Hawking (Oxford, 1942), one of the brightest minds of science of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century, went extinct on March 14, 2018 in Cambridge at the age of 76 years old.

In addition to his research on the expansion of the Universe and black holes, the Briton gained fame for his popular science books, including the bestseller "A Brief History of Time" and, in 2014 , a movie "The theory of everything" (The theory of everything), told his life.

Near a year after his death, the UK Mint, UK Mint, today issued a series of 50 cent coins commemorating its pioneering work on black holes. EFE

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