As critics see so- called conventional medicine, it looks narrowly at a patient's condition in a way that usually leads to surgery or powerful drug treatments, while alternative medicines lead to less drastic therapies.
He wanted nothing to do with drastic therapies that might grant him a few extra months at the expense of his comfort and his ability to do what needed doing before he died.
Most patients try less drastic measures — physical therapy, medications (pain relievers, anti-inflammatory drugs and glucosamine supplements), injections of hyaluronic acid and walking aids — before deciding that surgery is their best hope for escaping chronic pain and disability.
On the other hand, perhaps he was dragged to an ambulance from the steps of the Palais de Justice in Marseille and kept in solitary confinement and forced to submit to a drastic form of therapy known as the "sleep cure," whether he needed it or not.
Mr. Mazowiecki, a Roman Catholic intellectual and Solidarity supporter, said that perhaps the greatest challenge was what he called his Government's "courageous" program of drastic free-market shock therapy, intended to transform Poland's laggard Communist economy into capitalism.
As described above in the subtheme "Reaching the limits of systems" the therapy's drastic physical and emotional effects fundamentally disrupted participants' everyday lives and severely limited their social interactions.
As a result, cases of Type 2 diabetes that once required relatively minor treatment options can eventually require more drastic treatments, including insulin therapy, after several years.
However, these therapies show drastic antitumor responses in only small subsets of patients.
"For instance, regardless of my desire I can never be a professional heavyweight boxer, a super model or a famous tenor... at least not without some serious hormone therapy and a drastic increase in my calorie intake".
Photothermal therapy resulted in a drastic loss of luciferase activity in mice injected with nanomatryoshkas or nanoshells.
