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In healthcare, it is very important to sense the patient closely and as much as needed, because without a physical diagnosis it remains kind of incomplete as to what extent there is a possibility of impact for the patient and actually the ailment is. The ‘i-patient’ is the virtual form of the real patient that the doctor checks, but since reliance on technology has become necessary to decode the illness and the path to treatment, this ‘i-patient’ is more useful than the actual one lying on the bed. This would obviously resonate with me or for that matter anyone because this is what the culture of medicine today is, where the treatment process and the method of healing are incomplete with technological intervention and deciphering the ‘i-patient’.