China has been different from the West since ancient times. Before the Song Dynasty, the names of doctors were complicated, and they were generally called according to their specialties, such as food doctor, disease doctor, and gold sore doctor. Since the Song Dynasty, northerners have regarded doctors as doctors. Doctor is a formal name. During the Three Dynasties, both emperors and princes set up. It is divided into three levels: upper doctor, Chinese doctor and lower doctor. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there have been many famous doctors, such as Imperial Physicians, Advisors, Taizhong Doctors and Guanglu Doctors. In the Qing Dynasty, the official ranks ranged from first class to fifth class, also known as doctors. In the old society, Tai Hospital was called a doctor. In addition, after the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, official titles flooded and gradually formed a social atmosphere. Therefore, northerners respect doctors as "doctors". In order to distinguish it from the official name, the word "big" that calls a doctor "doctor" is pronounced dài, not dà.

Southerners call doctors doctors. LangZhongBen is the official name, that is, the general name of the royal attendants. Its duties were originally to escort, accompany, advise, prepare consultants and send them at any time. It began in the Warring States and was ruled by Qin and Han Dynasties. Later generations served as assistant ministers, doctors, foreign ministers and other important positions in various ministries. The name of doctor as a doctor began in the Song Dynasty. Honoring as a doctor is a southern dialect, which is caused by the proliferation of official titles after the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.

A sitting doctor is a Chinese medicine practitioner who feels the pulse of a patient in a Chinese medicine shop. Sitting doctor originated in Han Dynasty. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty, was the magistrate of Changsha. On the fifteenth day of every month, he sits in the hospital and practices medicine, taking nothing. In order to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing's lofty medical ethics and superb medical skills, many Chinese medicine shops later nicknamed him "a certain hall" and called the doctor sitting in the pharmacy "sitting on a doctor".

It was not until modern times that doctors became the general term for doctors.

Japan was called "doctor", "doctor" and "teacher" after Meiji.

Traditional American doctors are called "physicians". At the same time, they are called "physicians" and "surgeons" according to different professional fields.

In Europe and America, only surgeons are commonly called "physicians" and "surgeons". Since the middle ages, it is generally believed that "internal medicine" = "medicine" = "physician" = "physician". The job of "surgeon" is beauty and haircut as medical subsidy, but with the development of the times, surgeons and pharmacists have become alone in treatment, and they are gradually regarded as doctors and surgeons.

French is called "decin(medusan)" and German is "Arzt(arutsuto)". But in the Commonwealth, British surgeons are still called "sir" today.

Because the ancient curse says that diseases are caused by demons and gods, the profession of "doctor" has a lot to do with religions all over the world. In the west, the word "doctor" symbolizes Asklepios in Greek mythology (the image of Asklepios holding a cane is a symbol of WHO and WHO). In ancient Greece, different classes were used for diagnosis and treatment, slave doctors worked for slaves (slaves were different from later slaves), and free citizens sought doctors from free citizens. Doctors are not noble (this is because the Roman ruling class is less than the slave class, and most doctors are captured because of the war).

In medieval Europe, the social status of doctors was improved. Because it is an important occupation related to human life, it has been given a special position in specialized technical posts. However, at that time, due to the influence of China's Confucianism, doctors' social status was equivalent to that of masons, which was considered as a menial job. The social status of North Korean doctors is often lower than that of senior prostitutes. Doctors in India exist as the ruling class and only take care of people of noble descent. In Japan, doctors are called "pharmacists" and are closely related to religion. In the edo period, their social status depended on the samurai class.

After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the doctor system was changed and improved, and Chinese medicine and western medicine were integrated. China; Chinese medicine and western medicine in Korea and North Korea still exist independently, but Chinese medicine is gradually decreasing and there are signs of being lost.

Famous doctors in history

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Bian Que (Legend has it that he was a famous doctor in the era of the Yellow Emperor. )

Zhang Zhongjing (medical sage, a native of Nanyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty) is the author of Treatise on Febrile Diseases. )

Hua Tuo (a famous doctor in China and the Three Kingdoms period)

Sun Simiao (a famous Taoist priest and medical scientist in Tang Dynasty. Known as the "King of Medicine". )

Li Shizhen was born in Zhouqi, Hubei Province in the Ming Dynasty and wrote Compendium of Materia Medica. )

Arthur conan doyle (mystery writer, Sherlock Holmes novelist, physician)

Albert Schwarzer (theologian, philosopher, pharmacist)

Felix Gattari (psychiatrist, psychoanalyst)

Dayue Jingxiu (an ancient Japanese famous doctor)