However, surprisingly, Churchill made a remarkable recovery, chaired the Cabinet, again refused his family's advice to resign and, helped by Moran's stimulant tablets, made successful speeches to the House of Commons and the party conference: "If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office."

For the next two years, he repeatedly promised Eden, his ministers and his family that he would resign soon, but always retracted. He gave up on 5 April 1955. Moran could have forced him to leave office but didn't. "I was, I think, alone in urging him to hang on, although I knew that he was hardly up to his job for at least a year before he resigned office. His family and his friends pressed him to retire; they feared he might do something that would injure his reputation. I held this was none of my business. I knew that he would feel that life was over when he resigned, and that he would be unhappy when there was no purpose in his existence. It was my job as his doctor to postpone that day as long as I could." 

Churchill lived for another ten years, and had further strokes. In 1958, Moran summoned Hunt to Chartwell because Churchill was semi-comatose, febrile with abdominal pain, jaundice, dark urine and pale stools. They agreed this obstructive jaundice was probably due to passage of biliary stones into the common bile duct. 

Pragmatically, Hunt and Moran did no tests or X-rays. They treated Churchill with antibiotics and he made a complete recovery. Hunt was again consulted in 1960 after a similar episode that was also resolved
after antibiotics.

Fifteen months after Churchill died, Moran published his Winston Churchill — The Struggle for Survival. It was acclaimed by historians, but bitterly criticised by Churchill's family and friends and by the medical profession for breach of confidentiality.

Clement Attlee had two illnesses that, although not life-threatening, did influence our nation. 

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, whose sovereignty had been guaranteed by Britain and France. Parliament met the next day and the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, spoke. Many MPs thought he wavered, and feared that instead of declaring war immediately he might be considering further concessions by Poland to Hitler. The Tory Chief Whip despaired. It was the turn of the Labour Leader of the Opposition to reply, but Attlee was sick, convalescing after an unsuccessful prostate operation. When his deputy, Arthur Greenwood, rose to speak, the Conservative MP Leopold Amery shouted out, "Speak for England!" Greenwood made the speech of his career, probably more effective than any Attlee would have given, ending: "I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain and all that Britain stands for, and human civilisation, are in peril. We must march with the French."