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Chen Shih-kung, Five Commandments and Ten Requirements (1617)


The physician shall abstain from:
  1. Acquiring evil habits
  2. Over self-confidence
  3. Strong prejudice
  4. Imitation or lack of initiative
  5. Making careless diagnosis
  6. Practicing magic healing
  7. Treating the nobility and commoners similarly*
  8. Neglecting poor patients
  9. Extorting high compensation from critical cases
  10. 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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