conservative treatment

conservative treatment
treatment aimed at preventing a condition from becoming worse, in the expectation that either natural healing will occur or progress of the disease will be so slow that no drastic treatment will be justified. Compare radical treatment.

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treatment designed to avoid radical medical therapeutic measures or operative procedures; often reserved for elderly or debilitated patients.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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