The Compendium of Caraka 1.29.9

1.29.9

teṣāmidaṃ viśeṣavijñāṇaṃ bhavati atyarthaṃ vaidyaveśena ślāghamānā viśikhāntaramanucaranti karmalobhāt śrutvā ca kasyacidāturayamabhitaḥ paripatanti saṃśravaṇe cāsyātmano vaidyaguṇānuccairvadanti yaścāsya vaidyaḥ pratikarma karoti tasya ca doṣānmuhurmuhurudāharanti āturamitrāṇi ca praharṣaṇopajāpopasevādibhiricchantyātmīkartuṃ svalpecchutāṃ cāmanaḥ khyāpayanti karma cāsādya muhurmuhuravalokayanti dākṣyeṇājñānamātmanaḥ pracchādayitukāmāḥ vyādhiṃ cāpāvartayitumaśaknuvato &vyādhitamevānupakaraṇamaparicārakamanātmamupadiśanti, antagataṃ cainamabhisamīkṣyānyamāśrayanti deśamapadeśamātamanaḥ kṛtvā prākṛtajanasannipāte cātmanaḥ kauśalamakuśalavadvarṇayanti adhīravacca dhairyamapavacanti dhīrāṇāṃ vidvajjanasannipātaṃ &{ā.cābhisamīkṣya} pratibhayamiva kāntāramadhvagāḥ pariharanti dūrāt yaścaiṣāṃ kaścit sūtrāvayavo bhavatyupayuktastamaprakṛte prakṛtāntare vā satatamudāharanti na cānuyogamicchantyanuyoktuṃ vā mṛtyoriva cānuyogādudvijante na caiṣāmācāryaḥ śiṣyaḥ sabrahmacārī vaivādiko vā kaścit prajñāyata iti //

Their distinctive recognition is this: vaunting themselves excessively through a physician's dress, they wander from lane to lane out of greed for practice. Hearing of someone's illness, they swarm around him on all sides, loudly proclaim their own medical merits in his hearing, and repeatedly point out the faults of whichever physician is treating him. They seek to win over the patient's friends through flattering, instigating, and serving, and profess their own modesty of desire. Having secured a case, they look about repeatedly, wishing to conceal their own ignorance behind an appearance of dexterity. Unable to relieve the disease, they blame the patient himself, [saying] that he lacks appliances, lacks attendants, and is undisciplined. And seeing him reach the end, they flee to another region, making an excuse for themselves. In an assembly of ordinary people, they describe their skill like clumsy pretenders, and boldly speak against the fortitude of the steadfast. Seeing an assembly of learned men, they avoid it from afar, as travelers avoid a terrifying forest. Whatever fragment of a scriptural aphorism they may have memorized, they constantly quote it out of context or in irrelevant matters. They do not wish to be questioned, nor to question; and they dread questioning as if it were death. Neither a teacher, nor a pupil, nor a fellow student, nor any disputant of theirs is known.