Work Experience

In oversized scrubs. Wearing them was pretty cool

For the past 2 days, I've went to the Radiology department and checked out what they do there. The machinery and stuff was pretty cool. I saw X-rays, ultrasound scans, CT scans and the mahoosive MRI scanner. I got to try on a lead apron and it was so heavy! Don't know how the doctors wear them for hours on end! I also saw some operations. One was a coronary angiogram (I saw the patients heart beating on the computer) and another was implanting a pace maker. I didn't actually see much of the surgery as in cutting the body which was probably a good thing because I have to look away when people are having injections so I don't think I'd be too keen on witnessing someone's flesh being cut with a scalpel. But overall, it was a good experience and was useful as I'm thinking of going into Biomedical Engineering. My cheek muscles really hurt by the end of it from smiling too much (at the different patients and doctors I had to meet and greet. I'm not just sat there maniacally grinning while witnessing an operation)!