Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: code models

  • Retirement reflections: from code to compassion with Chloe

    Gregory Rutecki Cleveland, Ohio, United States   Daphnis & Chloe, by Henry Woods, R.A William May and Samuel Shem have described inadequacies of doctor-patient relationships that are characterized as code models.1,2 May observed that these medical codes binding patients and their physicians together shape relationships similar to habits or rules, are aesthetic, and value style over…