The physician shall abstain from:
- Acquiring evil habits
- Over self-confidence
- Strong prejudice
- Imitation or lack of initiative
- Making careless diagnosis
- Practicing magic healing
- Treating the nobility and commoners similarly*
- Neglecting poor patients
- Extorting high compensation from critical cases
- Criticizing or slandering other physicians
* It was believed that the physique of the nobility was delicate while that of a commoner was tough. They should, therefore, be treated differently. (Lee, 274)
Source: T'ao Lee, "Medical Ethics in Ancient China," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 13 (1943): 268-277.
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