The nurse who took care of Stephen Hawking is punished for neglecting him

London.- The woman who worked as a nurse at Stephen Hawking will no longer be able to exercise her profession, British regulators announced after concluding that he had not adequately attended the physicist died.

The Board of Nursing and Obstetrics said Tuesday that it was punishing Patricia Dowdy for "failing to provide the standards of professional and quality care that we expect and that Professor Hawking deserved".

The entity explained that the nurse faced several accusations of professional misconduct, such as "financial failure, dishonesty, lack of proper care and lack of cooperation" with the board.

Matthew McClelland, board representative, said the public expects the entity to act "in serious cases like this."

The best-known theoretical physicist of his time wrote on the mysteries of space, time and black holes so clearly that his book "A Brief History of Time" became an international commercial success.