Instructions on the Work of Doctors of
Traditional Chinese Medicine
1954
An inappropriate policy of restriction and discrimination has been adopted
toward traditional Chinese medicine in many respects, with the result that

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for a long time there has existed in society the situation where doctors of traditional Chinese medicine are opposed to doctors of Western medicine and
are discriminated against, and this situation hasn’t been changed. This is an
extremely grave policy mistake of the health departments... If this situation is
allowed to exist for a long time, not only will our country’s health protection
service continue to suffer serious losses, but there is the danger of this part of
the cultural legacy of our country being lost.
Source: Selections from China Mainland Magazines, Weekly, (supplement 22) April 8, 1968 (Hong Kong).