It is estimated that in many costume dramas have seen a scene, the palace concubines and the like are sick, the emperor said, if the cure is not good, you need the doctors to accompany the funeral! Then those doctors trembled with fear, and although their hearts were bottomless, they could only agree.
Becoming a doctor may sound like it can still be endured, but for the doctors with integrity and pursuit in ancient times, going to the palace to be a doctor is not a good thing, not only dangerous, but also ruined dreams, and many famous doctors are not interested in it.
The so-called Taiyi, that is, the doctors who held positions in the court in ancient times, were also called imperial doctors, and the names of different dynasties were different.
As early as the Qin Dynasty, the Taiyi Ling and the Taiyi Qi were established to be in charge of treatment within the court.
In the pre-Qin period, the main source of imperial doctors and eunuchs in the court was witch doctors, as well as famous doctors with certain prestige in the folk, but in most cases, witch doctors and medical officers were the mainstays, because few famous doctors would attack.
In the era of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a system of conquest was adopted, and talents were selected from the folk medical families to be regularly transported.
In the Sui and Tang dynasties, specialized institutions officially appeared to cultivate medical talents, and the main source of imperial medicine at that time was the students of government-run medical institutions and a small number of private conquests, and the subsequent dynasties were basically the same.
In other words, in fact, in ancient times, starting from the Sui and Tang dynasties, the main source of imperial medicine in the court was no longer a folk choice, but a special training by the state, and then selected and hired.
However, because good medical talents are very rare, it is still necessary to choose a certain doctor from the people to enter the palace.
Imperial doctors and eunuchs are all serving members of the royal family, of course, they need very good skills, and they must be innocent, the conditions in all aspects cannot be too bad, and the screening is very strict.
However, in ancient times, many famous doctors were reluctant to enter the court to do tai chi.
The most famous are Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao and Li Shizhen, who all refused to be requisitioned by the imperial court, and the vast majority of famous doctors in ancient times were also like this, for them, to go to the palace to be a doctor, both dangerous and have no future.
First, it is very dangerous to accompany the king like a companion tiger, and now because of technical and other reasons, there are often medical disputes, and of course in ancient times, there were also some.
For a doctor, in the folk as a lang, even if you can't cure people, as long as there is no accident, it is nothing, but in the palace, it is not easy to deal with.
The palace is full of dangers, and the slightest carelessness can kill you.
The emperor doesn't care about so many things, even if it is unreasonable to make trouble, he can't say anything more, obviously it is a disease that cannot be cured, and the emperor will blame the doctor when he is angry, that is really unreasonable.
It is too dangerous to be a doctor in the palace, just like Hua Tuo, who helped Cao Cao to cure his illness, it is really not worth it to lose his life without paying attention, or it is better to be a doctor outside the palace.
Second, the position of the Taiyi doctor is low, and there is no future, although the court taiyi looks quite beautiful, but in fact, the ancient Taiyi is not as advanced as imagined.
In ancient times, although doctors were more respected, their status was not very high, and the rank of doctors in the court was far inferior to that of other foreign ministers.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, even if it achieved the top and became a hospital judge, it was only a six-pin.
Generally speaking, it takes at least more than twenty years of work to achieve a hospital judgment from an ordinary doctor, which is very painful.
Not only is the grade of the Taiyi very low and limited, but unlike other foreign ministers, the Taiyi can only do the Taiyi, and it is impossible to do other things, and there is no result in achieving the head, and there is almost no future to speak of.
Third, the pursuit of medical taoism by famous doctors, disdain to be a doctor is different from many prescriptions today advertise "buy medicine for two hundred yuan, send ten eggs", before the ancient prescription, often written on the couplet in front of the door is "I hope there is no disease in the world, I would rather put on the shelf of medicine dust".
In ancient times, before becoming a doctor, you needed to learn the way of the sages and understand certain Confucian principles.
Caring for the world, the hearts of the doctor's parents, and the like is the most basic requirement for a doctor, and this also makes many famous doctors very disgusted by the pursuit of fame and fortune, and they don't want to enter the palace to do too much medicine.
In the folk medicine, to save thousands of people, and to enter the palace as a doctor, can only go to the royal family, but also from time to time involved in all kinds of right and wrong, can not be completely intoxicated with the study of medical technology, can not complete the supreme ideal.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Tai doctor Xu Sheng, because of his meritorious treatment in curing diseases, was awarded the title of Prince Taibao by the Jiajing Emperor and the title of Shangshu of the Leading Official, which is also the highest status among the ancient Tai Doctors.
However, for Xu Sheng, he was really very afraid, according to his own description, during the treatment of the Jiajing Emperor, he was afraid that he could not sleep at night, and after curing the emperor, he directly fell ill.
It can be said that in ancient times, the pressure required to treat the emperor and the members of the royal family was unimaginable.
If it is to treat the people of the people, it is also their own sin to have something wrong, but if they make a mistake in treating the emperor's illness, it may involve the entire family, and even the Nine Tribes are possible.
Therefore, it is too dangerous to go to the court to be a doctor in ancient times, and for a good doctor, to go to the court to be a doctor is to break his ideals and violate the original intention of being a doctor.