- Country and place of work
- Namibia
- How long have you been a radiographer?
- 10+ years.
- Where did you train?
Namibia and South Africa
- How long was your training?
- 6 years.
- What do you enjoy most about your job?
Assisting junior staff members
- What is the most challenging/difficult part of your job and why?
Insubordination, makes everything else difficult
- How many patients do you help each week approximately?
N/A
- What is the most memorable or happiest moment of your radiography career and why?
As a Radiation Therapist, it was when a patient who came in on the first day on a trolley works out of the department unassisted on the last day of treatment
- If you could change or improve one thing about your working life, what would it be?
I could have done my posgraduate studies in Radiography. But in Namibia there is no further growth opportunities in the field, forcing us to diversify after basic degree level
- Have you ever worked as a radiographer outside your home country? If not, have you considered it?
Yes
- What advice would you give to someone thinking about becoming a radiographer?
Its a calling, money comes last.
- How do you see the role of the radiographer/technologist developing in the future?
Will wait and see
