Treatment or Therapy?

invalid@example.com (JohnDiamondMD), JohnDiamondMD
Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:30:27 +0000

There is a most important difference between treatment and therapy.

Treat, from the Latin tractare, means “to act or behave in a specified manner toward,” for example, to treat one’s guests with courtesy. By extension, it means to give medical aid, for example, treating appendicitis by performing an appendectomy: finding out what is wrong and then acting on it in a specified manner.

In contradistinction, therapy comes from a Greek word meaning “inclined to serve, to attend on, to be...

Treatment or Therapy?