Synonym) SUK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Founded on Kaitain in 2401 by a group of Tsai practitioners and financed by the Emperor Kennc ffl al-Kam Onginally established as the Imperial Tsai Medical College it was later renamed the Suk School of Medicine to honor Dr Faisan Suk, physician to file Imperial Family during the reign of Corrm Vffl (2727-2756) The school was charged with training physicians who could be trusted to attend the Imperial Family and the families of the Great Houses The founding of the school followed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate the entire Imperial Family of Kennc's grandfather, Ismal Kennc n, by the court physician, one Sharom Silifant Dr Silifant attempted to deliberately mistreat ' accidental" wounds and to ad minister subtle poisons of her own concoction The founding physicians of the Suk School were trained in the practice of Tsai medicine, whose principal mode of treatment was the administration of herbal and other natural remedies The Tsai practitioners were so skilled at recognizing plants as medicines^or poisons that one could travel to a strange planet with only his few personal possessions and produce an entire pharmacopoeia from the planet's natural products Practitioners were trained to recognize pharmaceutical compounds through smell, taste, and simple chemical tests The Suk School produced more than just Tsai practitioners, however In response to the Imperial charge the concept of Imperial Conditioning was developed Those Tsai practitioners who successfully received Imperial Conditioning were thought to be incapable of taking human life The conditioning was thorough and expensive, but, as history was to show, ineffective The most complete and costly level of conditioning was that which trained a physician to loyalty to a particular Imperial Family The other Great Houses were usually content with tiie second level of conditioned physicians, i e , those with complete conditioning against taking human life and overtones of loyalty to one's employer, whoever it might be The Suk School also produced many fine noncon- ditioned Tsai practitioners during this time Most of these were individuals who could not pass the ngors of Imperial Conditioning Trainees for Imperial Conditioning were selected before the age of