Samuel Brown is a medical researcher, intensive care unit physician, and historian of religion and culture. His books include Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human. He is Vice President of Research and a Research Professor at Intermountain Health and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah. His recent article in Deseret Magazine is titled Grief Shared: How Grief Can Bring Us Together If We Allow It.
Dr. Brown proposes strategies for patients, their families, and medical practitioners so they can better address human needs before, during, and after serious illness. He argues that any solution to the inhumanity of intensive care must take advantage of new research on the ways human beings process information and make choices. He imagines a truly humane and compassionate ICU and his manifesto for reform advocates wholeness and healing for people facing life-threatening illness.
