• Question: Has your work saved any lives?

    Asked by Ems to Glafkos, Clare, Paul, Samantha on 6 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by Saffron.
    • Photo: Glafkos Havariyoun

      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 6 Mar 2015:

      Any work that I have personally done has not saved any lives.

      But I hope and wish that one day I will discover or help discover something that will do.

      Although I haven’t saved a life like a doctor or nurse could in an Accident and Emergency department I believe that in our department (Nuclear Medicine) as a team we help save lives on a daily basis.

    • Photo: Samantha Terry

      Samantha Terry answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      no, not yet. unfortunately I work more behind the scenes and my research might help in about 10 years’ time.

    • Photo: Clare Devery

      Clare Devery answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Not my work on it’s own. But collectively the work medical physics does has a definite role in saving lives.

    • Photo: Paul Booker

      Paul Booker answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      It’s difficult to say for certain, but my work probably does save lives. If people did not receive timely, effective care then their cancer would progress and they may die from this.

      The important thing to remember is it’s always a team effort of doctors, radiographers, nurses, porters, secretaries and your friendly medical physicist too 🙂

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