Nurse who humanised the American way of dying (Financial Ti


W hen Florence Wald, American granddaughter of German immigrants, filed into the Fitkin amphitheatre of Yale University for a lecture in 1963 she was a middle-aged nurse, albeit one of the most senior nurses in the US. She was dean of Yale's School of Nursing, already 46, but what she heard that day changed her life and, through her, the lives of countless Americans.

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