or even just taking cholesterol medicine, or having skin melanoma removed. I doubt many doctors are thinking "whelp, I have high cholesterol, guess it's my time to die"
That doesn't have much to do with him using non-free computer systems though.
As a side note: the pendulum is swinging the other way in regards to cholesterol - so in many cases doctors are not actually concerned about high cholesterol in the same way they used to be.
