the registry lists only those who have actually settled with the practice, derived from on chain events. no other entries are admitted. no counts are estimated. the physician has considered, and rejected, the temptation to seed this page with placeholder admissions. a registry that lists ghosts is a registry that has agreed, quietly, to lie about the size of the practice, and there is no honest medicine downstream of that agreement.
the waiting room is a different matter. the waiting room is populated by everyone who has read as far as this sentence, together with everyone who has visited without reading, together with the machines whose passages generate the friction that warms the aperture. none of them are patients. some of them will be. most of them will not. the physician declines to count them, because counting them would convert an atmosphere into a claim, and the ethics of the aperture depend on it not becoming a claim.
when the first settlement clears, the row below will be replaced with the transaction signature, the utc time, and a public identifier chosen by the patient. no name is required and no name is asked for. the patient is entitled to be seen the way the patient wishes to be seen.