title: Going to the USA--a US headache center from an Italian perspective.
abstract: During a period I spent at the UCSF Headache Center in the USA, I noted striking differences between the US health-care system and the Italian one in which I was trained. Here, I aim to outline some of these differences from a scientific-and, more importantly, from a sociocultural-point of view. Awareness of these aspects may help us to better understand different approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, including headache.
authors: Headache Center-Department of Neurology, University of Eastern Piedmont A. Avogadro and Maggiore della Carità Hospital, C.so Mazzini 18, 28100, Novara, Italy. michele.viana@ymail.com
authors: Michele
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authors: Viana
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000379:methods; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000208:ethnology; D018710:Pain Clinics / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology