TY - JOUR T1 - One physician's perspective JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 1138 LP - 1138 DO - 10.1136/bjsm.2010.080804 VL - 44 IS - 16 AU - Jean Claude Koenig Y1 - 2010/12/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/44/16/1138.abstract N2 - In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, he attributes success to environmental influences, and I share what may be a reasonably unusual confluence of sports medicine and radiology. I believe I can be a genuine enthusiast for both of these specialties. As a sports physician (1992–2002), I tried for 3 months to do my own ultrasounds (USs) using an intermediate level machine with a 12 MHz high-resolution probe loaned from an imaging equipment supplier. I received approximately 6 hours of training, and despite using the machine on a daily basis and trying to train myself from various textbooks and online sources, I eventually concluded that I was not adding value for the patient. At approximately the same time, the South African Sports Medicine Association application for registration with our Health Professionals Council as a specialty was … ER -