• Question: What do you like best about your job?

    Asked by Adri to Andrew, Lizzie, Nick, Sonia on 14 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by 664artc46, Flying Pig 1, 301artc24, 572artc35, matty@mc.
    • Photo: Elizabeth Kapasa

      Elizabeth Kapasa answered on 14 Jun 2015:

      I like the satisfaction of solving problems and discovering how/why things work. Also its rewarding to think that one day what you find out could help millions of people!

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      Andrew Phillips answered on 14 Jun 2015:

      I really like working with lots of talented people. Many of these are engineers, but I also work with surgeons and architects. Its great to get a whole range of people discussing a problem and ultimately coming up with solutions. When we work with surgeons and other healthcare professionals we know that we are helping patients. When we work with structural engineers and architects we know that we’ll be improving some aspect of people’s lives.

      I really like working with our students and catching up with our graduates as its amazing seeing the way that they solve challenges and bring fresh approaches to problems.

    • Photo: Nicholas Hitchins

      Nicholas Hitchins answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I work for a consultancy, which means that other companies buy our time for us to work on their products. I work for a huge range of clients from all over the world on many different products. In an average week, I would most likely work on two or three different products and hence see a lot of variety in the type of work and technology. I think that the variety is something that I really enjoy, it allows me to get involved is technology from across the medical spectrum and includes quite a lot of international travel in order to visit our global clients.

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      anon answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Its the wide variety of work, and the ability to give people back the sense of hearing – effectively the ability to communication. Most of us take our ability to hear for granted. When you lose hearing, to ability to enjoy a social life, listening to music, radio and watching TV and talking on the telephone becomes more and more difficult as the hearing level drops. The person becomes isolated from the rest of society.

      No two patients are the same and watch the patient get their life back over a period of months is a privilege for me.

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