Marquis Gu, however, did not agree with his opinion.
"Back then, when the late Empress Dowager's incident changed everything at the Imperial Hospital, the original Director of the Imperial Hospital was implicated and sentenced to exile. The affair affected both the front court and the imperial harem; many imperial physicians were purged, some had their households confiscated, and some saw three generations wiped out. These days… those that escaped by luck, or had other support—even so, just how skilled they truly are is hard to say. Otherwise, why would the Crown Prince's illness persist for so many years without improvement? Even when I was far off at the Northern Border, I heard many discussing how the imperial physicians at the hospital are no longer as capable as they once were."
