In an important collaboration funded by the Moore Foundation and based at BIDMC, we noted a high rate of reluctance for patients and families to speak up in the intensive care unit. A variety of factors seemed to create barriers to such speaking up.
    
Samuel Brown—physician leader, medical researcher, and cultural historian—is Professor of Medicine at Intermountain Medical Center/University of Utah Trained at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Brown researches and writes at the interfaces among medicine, religion, culture, and history. 
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