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I am a third year physio student and have done two clinical placements. I would just like to share my opinion regarding treatment visits, because this is the exact thing that makes me question my career choice. During my clinical placement last year, I worked in the sports therapy clinic of an established gym. The patient turnover was incredible, the physio managed at least 6 patients at a time, and I was the "aid" who performed all of the ultrasounds, and removed the machines (may I never touch another one of those machines for the rest of my life...) A patient coming in with patello-femoral syndrome was told to come back three times a week for the next 6 months, and this seemed a bit long to me. I was working there for two months, and not once did the physiotherapist discharge a patient. Is this what all clinics are like? The issues taught in class seem to be indirectly teaching us to keep our patients for as long as we can squeeze money out of them. If this is the case, I'm not sure I'm really interested in this type of career. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%