Primary Care Sports Medicine: A Part-Timer's Perspective

In brief: Primary care physicians provide most of the sports medicine care rendered in the United States through their office practices and through their roles as team physicians for local schools. With appropriate training and experience, their breadth of medical expertise probably makes them the physicians most qualified to function as "sports physicians" (although few do so on a full-time basis). One such physician describes his part-time sports medicine experience, including the multiple roles he plays as team physician, the way sports medicine is integrated into his family practice, and how it affects his professional life and peer relationships.