Sports medicine in the seventies

One question which is frequently asked of me is "What is Sports Medicine?" A somewhat facetious friend has replied "It's a lurk designed to get a good parking spot at the football finals and a seat in the stand for the test match. There's even the bait of a free trip to the Olympic Games," he adds jealously. But whilst admitting that these statements can be true, there are many mundane tasks to be accomplished, usually in your own time, or that which, by rights, belongs to your family; many lectures to prepare and deliver, and much criticism to endure, when you fail to cure overnight, the football star's ruptured cruciate ligament or neurotic, spoilt temperament or both.