Datang: Showdown, your father and I are Li Shimin

Chapter 67 Rectifying the Doctor's Name

"The fourth is that the fertility rate in the Tang Dynasty was too low and the infant mortality rate was too high, but the thinking always stayed on the difference between men and women, and the difference between men and women. Teach me, this is the fourth disease."

"The fifth disease, the land of the Tang Dynasty is rich and fertile, but there are many wastelands. This has a lot to do with the extremely low population of the Tang Dynasty. This is also caused by the fourth disease."

"The sixth disease is that the life expectancy of the people in the Tang Dynasty is extremely short, and it is often difficult to exceed 60 years old. They will be extremely weak at the age of 50 or [-], and countless people will almost die in bed. There are even fewer people."

"The main problem of these three diseases is that the medical science of the Tang Dynasty is not developed enough." Li Ze looked at the imperial doctors with a serious expression.

Standing in this room now, I dare not say that all of them are the top doctors of the Tang Dynasty, but almost all of them are top-ranked doctors with superb skills.

Because doctors who are not skilled enough can't enter the Imperial Medical Office, even if there is any medical accident, they will only be sentenced to death in the end.

What Li Ze said about the last three swords, the group of people in front of him really felt the same way.

As a doctor, because of the difference between men and women, countless women are sick and have to wait for death, especially in the process of giving birth, relying only on the "stable women" in the lower status to midwife, the effect they exert is tantamount to praying to God and worshiping Buddha.

Coupled with the bad reputation of Wenpo, there is no such a highly regarded medical ethics as the profession of doctors. Many Wenpos are almost walking on the edge of the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

During some family battles, Wen Po was often bought into an "assassin" to deliberately cause pregnant women to die during childbirth. These behaviors exacerbated the difficulty of giving birth to babies in Datang.

"What Dr. Li said is true, but the relationship between men and women has long been completely separated by Confucianism and bound by etiquette. We male doctors can't treat pregnant women at all." Gan Bozong, the medical supervisor, shook his head repeatedly with a bitter face.

The rest of the doctors also nodded.

"That's right... The qi disease that Empress Changsun suffers from is largely due to the fact that I dare not use medicines. There are very few records about women's medicines in medical books. We can only use our experience to treat it cautiously and use ten minutes as much as possible. The gentle medicinal materials can stabilize the condition of the Empress, and we have never carefully checked the pulse of the Empress, so we can only estimate the condition of the Empress Changsun based on very few clues." Uncle Wang, who is the imperial physician, also agreed. .

As the highest official of the imperial medical department, he also often sees doctors for the imperial palace, and he is worried that the medicine is too strong and will have adverse effects, and he is worried that the medicine is too weak and has no effect.

I often struggle between the two, and finally have to use some very mild medicinal materials.

Among the rumors of doctors, there is a saying that "it is better to heal ten men than one woman".

To see a doctor for women, especially queens and concubines, can only be done by hearing and asking, and sometimes women's descriptions are not accurate, so doctors can almost only rely on experience to use medicines. Strong medicines are prone to accidents, and weak medicines are difficult. Have an effect.

Therefore, the cases that are often successfully treated almost all rely on some luck.

But in later generations, there is no such saying that men and women are incompatible with each other in the hospital.

Patients with such a mentality would not appear in the hospital.

If one wants to change this situation, one can only change one's thinking, and the reason for this thinking is the misunderstanding of Confucianism.

People only remember whether a man and a woman give or take a kiss, but ignore the latter sentence.

"Chun Yukun said: 'Men and women are not intimate when they give or receive, is it rites?" Mencius said: "Rites." Said: "Sister-in-law is drowning, can you help her with your hands?" Giving and accepting is not intimacy, it is courtesy, and the one who is drowned by the sister-in-law is power."

"Mencius also said that life and death should be preceded by etiquette, and illness and life are at stake. How can we talk about giving and receiving? Doctors need a chance to rectify their names. Everyone in the world must know that doctors are all Gentlemen, and medical ethics are noble, only in this way can the status of doctors be raised steadily, so as not to be looked down upon by others."

"We must let the world know that in the eyes of doctors, there are no men and women, only diseases." Li Ze threw into the hearts of this group of doctors who were still very feudal in thinking more than 1000 years ago.

This seed must be planted for them, so that doctors have this concept first, and then patients can slowly accept this concept.

And if you want to spread a few words to the world, you must let the doctors get the attention of everyone in the Tang Dynasty.

After Li Ze finished speaking, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Master Li, if you want the world to abandon this kind of thinking, you need to let everyone in the Tang Dynasty know about it, and this kind of thinking has already been deeply rooted in people's hearts. How can you make everyone change?" Acupuncture master Qin Minghe looked at Li with a sad face. Ze, with a bitter expression as if he had eaten a lot of Coptis chinensis.

Zhang Baozang stroked his beard, and suddenly said seriously: "Why don't you compile what Dr. Li said into a book, like "The Analects of Confucius", and tell the world about it?"

Everyone seemed to have found a breakthrough, and their faces turned red with excitement.

Li Ze smiled lightly, did Confucius suffer less?
If you want to wear its crown, you must bear its weight.

You must not be bound by something like the Analects of Confucius. Countless people in later generations have accused Confucius because of some sentences in the Analects that were limited by the times.

What I have said also has certain limitations. If they are really asked to write a book like "The Analects of Confucius", future generations will inevitably spray themselves to death.

"You must not! Everyone's words will have their own thoughts and will eventually be limited. The most important thing for a doctor is not to seek fame and wealth, but to serve the common people and the world's patients."

"Instead of reading a book, it is better to be strict with ourselves and let the world see that our doctors are upright and noble. Only in this way, the world will firmly believe that doctors are gentlemen. Therefore, I need you to be sure in the process of teaching and practicing medicine in the future. You must be strict with yourself, and do not have any behavior that is contrary to medical ethics, so as to justify the name of doctors in the world!"

Li Ze, who is an activist, is very reluctant to say more, and would rather do more practical things.

Sun Simiao's eyes lit up immediately, as if his own thoughts had been resonated, his eyes were filled with a light of reverence: "Miraculous doctor Li has lofty aspirations, and I can't wait to catch up with them. This old man is also willing to work with Dr. Li to rectify the name of doctors in the world!"

Seeing that Sun Simiao set an example first, a certain kind of imperial doctors also said: "We are also willing to work with Dr. Li to rectify the name of doctors in the world!"

"I just don't know, where should we start? It may be a very long time to change the minds of the people in the world." Although Jiang Shaoqing looked puzzled, she still eagerly hoped for what Li Ze said. be implemented at an early date.

Only in this way, doctors will encounter fewer and fewer difficulties in the process of practicing medicine, and at least the interests of doctors themselves will not be damaged.

Li Ze narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "This matter is very simple, join the battle!"

(End of this chapter)