• Question: Have you helped anyone? If yes, how?

    Asked by anon-224981 to Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019: last edited 14 Nov 2019 10:11 pm

      I have helped people get a diagnosis to what makes them sick. As a small part of a big diagnosing machine, but I’ve certainly played my role.

    • Photo: Nawapat Kaweeyanun

      Nawapat Kaweeyanun answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      As a PhD student, I am a teacher for younger students at my university. I help them do practice questions and learn their concepts. It’s almost like being back in a school classroom except everyone is a little bit older!

    • Photo: Natalie Fowler

      Natalie Fowler answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I help sick patients on intensive care everyday by providing life support to their organs when they are failing. The equipment I use keeps people alive whilst they are tested and treated for whatever is making them ill! I might help them by setting up their breathing machine, running a blood test to check their bloods behaviour, clean their blood with a filter outside of the body or help as part of a team to take them for a scan.
      Everything I do is to help patients try to recover from very serious illness and injury and it’s the best thing about my job. I love to help and it leave a warm fuzzy feeling whenever the outcome is good!

    • Photo: Simon Brown

      Simon Brown answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      My day is primarily helping others. It’s the best part of the job and I love being part of a team. As an assistant technician, each day is different but I get to be a scientist and get to help others which for me, is an ideal job.

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 25 Nov 2019:

      I try to help people every day and not just at work. Besides the obvious help I am employed to give at various workplaces the “help” that I am most proud of giving was actually during one of my shifts at the hospital…as I was booking a patient in who was suffering from an allergic reaction, I realised it was probably more serious than she was making out. I immediately got her a wheelchair and took her to the resus area myself in order to save time as I thought she might be going into anaphylactic shock. I put a call out for emergency medical assistance and some doctors came to treat her. After she had been moved to ITU, the anaesthetist came to thank me. Apparently, he just managed to intubate her before her airway was cut off completely and said I helped to save her life. Just goes to show that everyone within an organisation has their role to play 🙂

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