The Difference Between Treating a Disease Versus Curing it
The Difference Between Treating Versus Curing a Disease Recently, while on my way to the office, I had a very interesting conversation with an UBER driver. He wanted to know what I felt was the main difference between prescribing drugs to treat disease and the use of naturopathic medicine. And I found myself in an interesting conversation that involved clarifying the difference between truly being cured ,verses simply being palliated. To palliate denotes a state whereby your disease symptoms may be temporarily abated due to medical intervention. But, once the treatment wears off, the disease returns. As…