PAIN MEDICINE POSITION PAPER.

The article presents a position paper for pain medicine, which identifies the history of pain medicine and offers suggestions to improve knowledge on pain medicine. It says that the quality of pain care is low and pain treatment remains to be ineffective thus becoming a problem in the U.S. It highlights notable advances in the history of pain care in the U.S. and the barriers that affect the progress of pain care treatment. It also suggests establishing pain medicine as a medical specialty.