Highway to Health - Flipbook - Page 38
Richard
Senior Biomedical Scientist
(a scientist trained in biology)
There are different treatments that our hospital can
do to make people well again and, in the laboratory, its
our job to help make a diagnosis and with medicines we
can help make people better.
WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE AT AGE 15?
I wanted to be a hairdresser, but all my hair started
to fall out so I had nothing to practice on!
WHAT IS YOUR CAREER NOW?
HOW IS YOUR CAREER
CONNECTED TO HEALTH?
As a Senior Biomedical Scientist I help to diagnose
people who are unwell so that we can find what is
wrong with them and their doctors can give them
treatment and help they need to make them better.
I work in a hospital in a Histopathology (looking at
human tissue with a microscope) laboratory with a
white coat, myself and some of my friends look at
things that have been removed from people to see if
FUN FACT ABOUT YOUR JOB
they are healthy or if they have something wrong with I have more hair on my face than I do on my head?
them. As an example, we might receive somebody’s
perhaps I should turn my head upside down!
appendix if they arrived at hospital with appendicitis
and it’s my job to take a slice of tissue and place it on
a glass slide. By looking down a microscope at the piece
of appendix we can tell if somebody needs to stay in
hospital to have further investigations or can go home.
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