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Gina Gallyot - MALAYSIA

How long have you been a radiographer?

10+ years.

Where did you train?

College of Radiography and Radiotherapy, Kuala Lumpur General Hospital , Malaysia

How long was your training?

3 years.

What do you enjoy most about your job?

Knowing that I have the ability to help a cancer patient understand and accept their disease and its treatments

What is the most challenging/difficult part of your job and why?

Administering to terminally ill pediatric cancer patients because I feel they have been given too much to handle at such a young age not only physically but how their innocent minds cope with being different from their friends

How many patients do you help each week approximately?

I see at my center an approximate of 20 new patients a week

What is the most memorable or happiest moment of your radiography career and why?

When I met again a patient I treated as a student radiographer, she was of my age and I when met her again after 10 years she had married and had children. I felt a sense of completeness for all I was doing everyday and that it did indeed bring cure and a future for the patients I dealt with.

If you could change or improve one thing about your working life, what would it be?

? I would want the hours to stretch a little longer to linger with the patients more, to have more time to not only know their troubles but to share and celebrate their everyday triumphs like being able to take a walk out in the sun without getting tired or being able to take a shower unassisted. The simple things we take for granted but are like a major accomplishment for these special people.

Have you ever worked as a radiographer outside your home country? If not, have you considered it?

No, I haven�t but I have considered it even to the point of sitting for the Canadian entrance exams.

What advice would you give to someone thinking about becoming a radiographer?

Choose this career if you want to give back to someone else all the blessings that you experience in your life, choose being a radiographer because it will give you the utmost job satisfaction when you see a patient grow from strength to strength, choose to be a radiographer because when you see immense suffering each day you will appreciate how fragile and beautiful life is and then you will come full circle in your understanding of why you receive all the small blessings in life like the ability to walk, talk and eat without difficulties.

How do you see the role of the radiographer/technologist developing in the future?

I do see many developments in equipment technology to improve our practices but I would really want to see our practices improved by developing the radiographer him/herself from within. The radiographer is as a vital link in healthcare management and we need to be bolder in asserting the value we bring in the care of the patient in particular and to the whole system in general.