One of my most magical moments at the movies as a child was watching The Miracle Worker.

Anne Sullivan, a tutor, spells the word ‘water’ into the palm of Helen Keller and finally it clicks … Helen makes the connection between that hand sign and the actual substance.

Suddenly she has the key to making sense of her inexplicable world, despite being blind and deaf.

And so it was that I had an epiphany during my first week of general practice.