"What's The Patient's Code Status?" is a patient and family guide to advanced directives and code status designations. This practical handbook will empower the patient, with the ability to protect themselves, as well as retain their medical decision power. This book will enable the patient and their family to make an educated and informed decision regarding future medical care options. It is a book that answers the many questions that go unanswered, as well as defines the many terms that patients and families are asked to decide upon. A sample advanced directive is included. Dr. Ferdinando L. Mirarchi is a Board Certified and Practicing Emergency Medicine Physician is Western Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine as well as a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He has been has been nationally as well as internationally published in his field of emergency medicine. He created this book in layman's terms, for his own mother, so that she could comprehend the choices and decisions to be made in caring for her debilitated mother. It was written not between the walls of a library but in the setting of Emergency Departments, Trauma Bays and Critical Care units where it becomes an issue for older Americans. He wrote this material to protect older Americans and to educate them with respect to enabling them with the ability to retain their own medical decision capacity. His book is utilized and referenced by many Area Agencies on Aging throughout the many states. It has been incorporated into patient education at many hospitals as well as nursing homes. It most recently is being utilized by the Center of Organ Recovery and Education in hopes of increasing public awareness with respect to advanced directives.