title: The legitimization of headache medicine.
abstract: Simultaneous with the drive to ensure the acceptance of headache disorders as "real diseases," the field of headache medicine has strived for recognition as a subspeciality with itself. Efforts to gain such recognition eventually came to fruition in 2005.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
authors.forename: Alan G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Finkel
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000266:history*; D006666:History of Medicine; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States