Palliative Care — a Recap

What connects a 15000-year-old femur, Margaret Mead and Dame Cicely Saunders?

Anthropologist Margaret Mead, from Internet Archive Book Images https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/

There is a story that some years ago, a student asked anthropologist Margaret Mead “What is the first sign of a civilisation”. The story says that, unexpectedly, she answered that the first sign of civilisation is a healed femoral fracture because it shows people caring for one another…