A Great Physician should not pay attention to status, wealth or age; neither should he question whether the particular person is attractive or unattractive, whether he is an enemy or friend, whether he is a Chinese or a foreigner, or finally, whether he is uneducated or educated. He should meet everyone on equal grounds. He should always act as if he were thinking of his close relatives.
-Sun Si-Miao, 581-682 AD, from "On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians."
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Is this like China's version of the Hippocratic Oath?
it is EXACTLY that, according to Wikipedia (actually, Wikipedia says it's "often referred to as the 'Chinese Hippocratic Oath.'"
I think I like it better than the (Greek) Hippocratic Oath, which, although it's been altered a lot today, is sort of bound by its time period.
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