Ararat radiographer Kevin Watson is hoping to raise awareness on Sunday for World Radiography Day.
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Mr Watson began his medical imaging career in the British Army in 1982 and has worked at East Grampians Health Service for four years.
"Joining the Royal Army Medical Corps was a good way to get some training and life experience at the time. I ended up doing 14 years there and thoroughly enjoyed that period of my life," he said.
"World Radiography Day is about raising awareness with the general public about what we do and who we are.
"Within the restrictions we have to comply with, we might have an outside gathering and raise some awareness in the hospital."
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Mr Watson said Radiography was a very "patient-centered" occupation.
"We produce images to help doctors diagnose patients, using imaging techniques such as a X-ray and CT scanning," he said.
"My mum was a nurse and my uncle was a doctor, and I was always very interested in science at school.
"When I left school in 1981 I didn't really know what I wanted to do. But I had this idea that I wanted to do a job that involved helping people in some way.
"I eventually came up with the idea that I could combine my interest in science with my compulsion to do good in society."
Mr Watson grew up in a small town in Scotland and moved to Australia with his family in 1997.
"I got redundancy from the army in 1996. They were reducing the size of their army medical services so I took a voluntarily redundancy," he said.
"We decided that we wanted to move to Australia with our four children, and we have never regretted that decision for a moment. It has worked out very well.
"It's great working in a small town and hospital. It is much more personal and we get to know the patients that come through here.
"You remember them and they remember you. It's a much friendlier atmosphere.
"I have never really worked in a large city hospital. Even when I was in the army, the places I worked were relatively small.
"Especially here in Ararat, we get enough time to chat with patients. We don't have to rush ... in a city hospital where you are really bust all the time you can forget about patients as people."
Mr Watson said the biggest challenging in his career was adapting to technology within the industry.
"I think back to when I first started in the early 1980s compared to now ... we used photograph film when processing and we didn't have computers," he said.
"A couple of the places I worked at, the radiologist would handwrite reports and we definitely didn't have CT scanning.
"As technology has come on, I have had to adapt to that and learn to use computers which I used to be a little bit afraid of ... but I have enjoyed the challenge."
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