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—ICU physician, medical researcher, and cultural historian—is Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at Intermountain Medical Center/University of Utah and director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain. 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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