The Chinese characters for doctor also refer to scholar-bureaucrats, which was the highest aspiration for intellectuals in ancient China. Doctors were then respected as much as Confucian elites who were supposed to have high moral standards and be well educated, altruistic, and dedicated to serving the country. However, in modern China, medicine is no longer seen as a noble or an attractive profession. Last week, four officials were removed from their posts on the basis of their negligence in reviewing and approving an anti-gang brochure in which doctors were portrayed as gangs and listed as first among the top ten gang categories in China.
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