title: Time to bring sports medicine into play.
abstract: The fastest, highest, strongest, the perfect rhythm or spectacular play-in essence, the beauty and thrill of sports. Yet, our vision of sports medicine is usually circumscribed--as on our cover-to the team doctor treating a player's injury on the field. The inside pages of this issue take a deeper look and bring to mind that while sports themselves generate lessons for life and society, sports medicine can offer vital lessons for approaches to health care.