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hamish123 · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 5

Is there a need to raise the profile of Radiographers/X-ray Technologists worldwide? Do the public fully understand our various roles and how very few of them will go through life without coming into contact with a radiographer?

hjhogle · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject:

Seems to me that even within our own profession, there's role confusion.

Many RT's in the US are not aware that the professional role of the radiographer around the world is markedly different than it is here.

So, I would say "yes". There is a need to raise the profile of Radiographers/X-ray Technologists worldwide.

hjh, RT

hamish123 · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 5

Thank you for taking time to reply.Thought you would be interested in this new book. It is the first book/novel to feature a Radiographer/X-ray Technologist as a main character. Radiographers are involved in nearly ninety percent of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and yet they are unknown. For example, the book mentions a dialogue between two ambulance men. They discuss famous TV and media medical characters. Josh, Charlie Fairhead and Harry represent paramedics, nurses and consultants in the BBC TV drama Casualty. George Clooney's Dr Ross in NBC’s ER has made this character universal. Dr Raj a Psychologists of ITV’s ‘Good Morning TV’ is a household name. There is no similar recognition of radiographersHere are what some people are saying

Lynn Cuthbertson Senior Lecturer Programme Lead BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Imaging Science Glasgow Caledonian University

“I have finished reading the book which I found an absolute delight although at times I had to think hard about the Scottish dialogue. It was compelling reading which had me in tears and clearing my throat on several occasions but also giggling at times. Well done you…I hope that this publication will succeed and fulfil your and our professions' quest. I have already mentioned it to some of our students and I will definitely be encouraging staff to put it on their reading lists….Well done again and many thanks for forwarding me a review copy. I have subsequently passed it on to another member of our team….When's the sequel”

Alison Prince of Arran Voice by Alison Prince 29 October 2009

“George Korankye writes a good story - and he knows what he is talking about. As a radiographer himself, he is well used to the emergencies, the dramas and sometimes the tragedies that occur in every hospital, including the X-ray department. He has a keen ear for the speech of Glasgow people, and their essential wit and compassion humanity come shining through. His fictional Bonnyholly Hospital is one that will fit into many people's experience of what happens to them at the end of an ambulance ride, and he has clearly coped with some moments of great trauma.
In this book, Korankye looks at a notional disaster scenario such as Dunblane or Lockerbie. Though he stresses in the Foreword that no specific reference is meant to either of these, we get to see the mechanisms at work that will bring kindly paramedics to the scene of some horrific accident. We follow the ambulance and its staff and patients back to the hospital. There, almost invariably, the radiographer is needed to reveal what has happened to the bones and tissue that have been damaged - and he or she is always going to be one of the first to talk to frightened parents or grieving people who have to be reassured or given bad news.

Korankye's book is by no means a technical tome, however. It has professionalism and expertise, but he fills his story with conversation and laughter, coupled with the inevitable private griefs. The radiographers he is talking about give comfort and hope to people facing up to sometimes terrible injuries or receiving news of a death, but they are never indifferent. This book is written with humanity, humour and deep insight. The perfect gift for …anyone who's ever had an X-ray. –“

For more details Why not visit the author’s website www.georgekorankye.com or visit Amazon UK

Come on I need your support to get a momentum statred. Most people will come into contact with a Radiographer during their life. In the UK ALL women over 50 will definitely come into contact with one. And yet very few people know what they do.