Chang-Lu, Ten Commandments for Physicians (1695)
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