title: Our readers as leaders.
abstract: You, our readers, don't often think of yourselves as being at the forefront of a medical trend-but, in fact, you are. That trend is the gradual emergence of a "health model" of medicine, with its roots in sports medicine and similar health-oriented clinical disciplines. You practice in this mode whenever you offer advice on prevention of disease or injury, prescribe exercise for fitness or rehabilitation, or find a way to help patients with asthma or osteoarthritis remain active.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
authors.forename: G O
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Matheson