medical therapy
Clinical healing process
Medical therapy is treatment of disease or injury through non-surgical means—typically medication, but also including approaches like physical therapy, radiation, or psychological intervention.
The term often appears in contrast to surgical therapy: The tumor responded to medical therapy, so they avoided an operation.
In casual use, therapy alone usually implies medical therapy.
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- healingRestoration of health
- cureTreatment that heals
- cancer treatmentMedical intervention for malignancy
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
recovery · pain management · remedy · intervention · chemotherapy · radiation · surgery · drug trial · experimental treatment · side effects · dosage · prescription · clinic · patient · second opinion · nurse · bedside manner · doctor
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Informal household cures
folk medicine · faith healing · quackery · snake oil · crystal healing
medical therapywatchful waiting
Monitoring before acting
benign neglect · letting nature take its course · doing nothing · neglect · palliative care
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