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Direct linkKeranen, Lisa – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2007
"Code status" is a prominent feature of end-of-life discussions in U.S. hospitals. This essay analyzes how the rhetoric of code status articulates the terms of end-of-life decision-making in one hospital's "Patient" Preferences Worksheet. The Worksheet signifies the abandonment of the technological fix as the preferred…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Rhetoric, Patients, Personal Autonomy
