Forty years ago I read the diaries of Lord Moran, who was Winston Churchill’s physician. Since then I have wondered why more doctors to Heads of State and governments don’t write about their patients. Imagine what an education that would be.
It was Moran who revealed for the first time, much to the fury of the Conservatives, that Churchill was a sick old man who had had a stroke in 1942. No one was told. Then there was The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zishui, Mao’s personal physician for two decades. Li wrote the book in the early nineties
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