New Delhi, June 6 -- I. The Industrialization of the Clinical Gaze

Nearly five million people globally lose their lives each year due to avoidable medical interventions. We have entered the era of industrialized medical practice, where the clinical gaze has shifted from the patient to the "billable event."

In decades past, a physician's primary tools were observation and time. Today, that connection is often severed by the machine. Particularly in specialty medicine, patients are frequently viewed not as individuals but as candidates for high-revenue procedures-a colonoscopy, an endoscopy, or a heart catheterization-regardless of their lived health context.

Doctors now spend the majority of a consultation facing a screen. They see a da...