Question: What makes radiography stand out from the rest of the branches of science?

Gill Harrison answered on 4 Mar 2019:

I suppose for me, as a diagnostic radiographer, radiography is extremely varied, using radiation to diagnose people’s health conditions in so many ways. It might be a broken bone one minute, then bowel blockage, to the cause of a stroke or working out where a brain tumour is to help the surgeon when they operate. Also x-ray machines can be used in the x-ray department, but can also be taken to the ward, operating theatre and many other areas.

Radiographers (therapeutic radiographers) use radiation to treat cancer and various tumours.
We are using some amazing equipment that is being developed all the time, giving us more and more information about what goes on inside a human (or animals, in the case of veterinary radiographers) body. Where else could you be operating machines that are worth anything up to half a million £’s on your own in the middle of the night? Radiography links patient care and diagnosis/treatment with amazing technology, so it gives a really good balance of things. There’s also a lot of work with robotics and artificial intelligence which is going to make the role more interesting as these developments are used in practice.

There are many interesting opportunities, working with so many different teams in hospitals or other settings. I was able to x-ray people at the F1 British Grand Prix for a few years running. I’ve even done CT scans on loaves of bread! Some of my colleagues have x-rayed bones and skeletons that have been excavated from ancient burial sites.