The electronic health record changed how we see patients in the twenty-first century.
Patients are interpreted *primarily* through a screen brought into exam room, and parts of the patient must fit its electronic categories--diminishing the patient further by forcing them into fixed templates.
Never before has a patient been broken into this many parts, with the pieces so predetermined, and the categories so tight.
> Welcome to the age of the electronic clinical gaze.[^1]
[^1]: Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age, Bob Cutillo, 2016.