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医之好治不病以为功

yī zhī hào zhì bù bìng yǐ wéi gōng

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Definitions

1. doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's \recovery\ (idiom)

Child Words of 医之好治不病以为功

to rule

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

no; not so

illness

meritorious deed or service

to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)

to use

because of

good

as (in the capacity of)

medical

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])