The teacher tailors his approach to each student and helps every one of them improve.
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From the 《三国志·魏志·华佗传》 biography of the legendary physician Hua Tuo. Two officers with identical symptoms were given opposite treatments — one a purgative, one a sweat-inducer — because their underlying conditions differed. Both recovered.
usage
Medical literal → general figurative. Now mostly used about management, teaching, policy — anywhere that a one-size-fits-all approach would fail and a diagnosis-specific one works.
