Village Shepherd

Many years ago at the age of eighteen, when I started training as a physiotherapist, we had to spend the first six months in academic learning in college. We weren't allowed near a patient and barely even saw the physiotherapy department. Of course at eighteen, all of us students were desperately impatient to begin the real work, the job for which we were training, and that first six months seemed to go on for ever. We wanted to learn our skills on real people, not just in the classroom.