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Can anyone here suggest an antonymn for Palliative, as in "Hospice service provides palliative care"?
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- Tim
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terrible? anti-enantiopathic?
just kidding, sorry.
just curious, why would you want an antonym?
welcome to the board, Tim!
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>>just curious, why would you want an antonym?<<
I want to use it in an article that I'm writing on hospice care, something like this, "Palliative care, as compared to [antonymn] care, is concerned with..."
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Tim
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From the context you provide, are sure that you really want an antonym? You may be contrasting different types of care, but they are not really opposites, are they?
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"Palliative care, as compared to curative care, is concerned with..."
Not an antonym, but I think it's what you're looking for.
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I think you've got it, Faldage! The antonym would have to be something like ... aggravating (aggravative?).  In any case, nothing you'd be likely to use to describe a type of care.
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yes, yet another example of an offhand use of opposite, when what's really wanted is contrasting -- we do see a lot of that, don't we?!
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I found two medical websites which define "therapeutics" as that branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of diseases, "palliative or curative."
This parallel coupling of words modifying "treatment" suggests that Faldage got it just right.
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This parallel coupling of words modifying "treatment" seems indeed to fit the bill in my view, but if you put "care" in place of "treatment", it's less convincing: "curative care" raises the question of the endpoint..
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It has been, I think, extraordinarily difficult for modern medicine to accept the notion of palliative care of the dying. This acceptance appears to have been hampered by two dominant notions in medicine: (1) that cure is always the highest and best goal and (2) that death is always the worst outcome. Much of the language of medicine lags behind the broader acceptance of death as one part of the process of living. It seems it may take a generation of evolution in the language to get all of the words and phrases adjusted to a newer medical view which accepts death as something other than a defeat for the physician.
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