Time to move towards subspecialties (or super-specialties) of pain medicine.

The last one century has seen tremendous advancement in the field of medicine. In fact, the pace of this development has been so rapid, that each basic specialty had to be diversified into many new subspecialties to encompass the rapidly evolving technology, expertise and even newly identified diseases in the mankind. Pain medicine is unique, that this specialty has yet to be recognized as an independent specialty in many parts of the world, yet the development in this field has been exponential. Pain and pain medicine are an ocean, and it is impossible for a single human being to master every aspect of it. With this concept in mind, the Editor-in-Chief (THK) of this journal invited renowned pain specialists of the world to write on the concept of subspecialties (or super-specialties) in Pain Medicine to show the path to budding pain specialists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]